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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 pp. 1 - 42.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who carries herself with the elegance of a ballerina?
(a) Chuco's wife.
(b) Loreto's first love.
(c) Ruperta.
(d) Tony Baba's wife.

2. Besides the theme of racism, what other theme is used in the book?
(a) The superiority of men over women.
(b) People who pose as good Christians while exploiting others.
(c) Madness created by hunger, abuse and biogtry.
(d) Wealth as the tool of social injustice.

3. What sign does Chuco imitate?
(a) A sign showing a man drinking tequila.
(b) A sign showing a Mexican dancing on his sombrero.
(c) A sign showing a Mexican crossing the desert.
(d) A sign showing a sleeping Mexican, seemingly a lazy bum.

4. Who is Chuco?
(a) Loreto's long, lost brother.
(b) A chicano youth who gets caught up in the revolultion.
(c) The owner of a modest restaurant.
(d) A champion cotton-picker who gets in a fight in a brothel.

5. Where does the narrator run into Chuco ten years later?
(a) in San Diego at a cafe.
(b) in Aztlan, in downtown Los Angeles.
(c) in Nogales where he is selling tourist souvenirs.
(d) in Phoenix at a news .stand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the married couple Loreto met on their way to church do all day long?

2. What do they do to Chalito to try to make him well?

3. What does the name "Malguerida" mean?

4. How does Tony Baba's grandmother show herself as truly villainous?

5. Which worker does Tony Baba's grandmother intensely dislike and why?

(see the answer key)

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