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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion did Manny realize the hospital receptionist's sighs about Magda's condition really signified?
(a) Sympathy.
(b) Embarrassment.
(c) Disapproval.
(d) Curiosity.

2. What did Manny use to keep Pedi occupied while he was watching her during Magda's date with her secret boyfriend?
(a) Monopoly.
(b) Tiddlywinks.
(c) Dominoes.
(d) Jacks.

3. What question did Malcolm Augustus, Chico's opponent, know the answer to when no one else in Manny's biology class had known?
(a) How many eggs a toad lays on average.
(b) How many stars there are in the sky.
(c) How much blood flows during the average woman's menstrual cycle.
(d) How many apheds can fit on a single rose.

4. What high school were the white students bussed in from in order to attend Manny's school?
(a) Fresno High.
(b) Alemany High.
(c) Franklin High.
(d) Jefferson High.

5. What part of the dead loved one's body did Manny's family believe the mourners should touch at the funeral?
(a) The top of the head.
(b) The face.
(c) The neck.
(d) The hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Manuel came in the room and recognized what was happening, what did he say?

2. What milestone did Albert accomplish during training that made Manny start to think their team may have a chance at winning?

3. What did Manny list as Nardo's sole physical flaw?

4. What did Nardo and Manny build out of bricks in Grandma Rosa's yard?

5. What part of Malcolm's body did Chico run into that knocked him unconscious?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Manny particularly concerned about his parents finding out about Nardo getting drunk and sneaking back into the house?

2. How does the way in which the hospital receptionist treated the Hernandez family highlight the theme of same-race discrimination?

3. What made Chico want to back out of his scheduled boxing match at the last minute?

4. When Manny dreamt of Grandma Rosa the night before her funeral, what happened within his dream and how did he react once he woke up?

5. Though at first Rebecca claimed it was their lack of money that was keeping her from taking Magda back to the hospital after her fever kept rising, what did she finally admit was the real reason?

6. How does Miss Van der Meer's classroom represent the theme of racial inequality?

7. Why did Nardo have a particularly difficult time in the first few hours of hard work he and Manny did in their grandmother's yard?

8. When Magda came home and her family rushed her to the hospital, what symptoms was she exhibiting and to what prognosis did her symptoms point?

9. Why was Manny so reluctant to let Nardo go into Grandma Rosa's house to fix them some Kool-Aid?

10. Why is it ironic for Lencho to be kicked out of the Berets after losing his boxing match to Boise?

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