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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. Who cleans out the lot at the beginning of the chapter “Sam”?
(a) Leona and her family.
(b) The garbage company.
(c) The community.
(d) Prisoners.

2. What does Ana do with the object she dug up?
(a) Replants it.
(b) Eats it.
(c) Pawn it.
(d) Takes it to the police.

3. Where does Kim think someone might be sleeping?
(a) The sewers.
(b) The back of a car.
(c) A couch in a vacant lot.
(d) The couch in the living room.

4. What does Sam notice about the gardeners, in terms of location?
(a) The garden is mixed well in terms of cultural diversity.
(b) The garden only has blacks, like the community.
(c) The garden only has whites, like the community.
(d) The garden is segregated, like the community.

5. What is the “Garcia Equation”?
(a) The idea that when you move to Spain, you get younger the older you are.
(b) The idea that when you move to Mexico, you get younger the older you are.
(c) The idea that when you move to the U.S., you get younger the older you are.
(d) The estimated growing season for lettuce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ana use to dig?

2. What does Leona take with her to see the city?

3. What does Wendell do to show the person who frightened him that he means well?

4. How did Wendell’s son die?

5. What does Sam note is a hobby of his?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the chapter “Wendell” begin to show that words are not necessary to bring cultures together?

2. What does Wendell mean when he discusses the phrase “And a little child shall lead them”?

3. What are Leona’s experiences with calling the city?

4. What were Leona’s grandmother’s experiences with doctors?

5. Why does Kim plant beans in the vacant lot?

6. What does Gonzalo learn about his equation by the end of the chapter “Gonzalo”?

7. What is the problem with water in the lot, and how does Sam deal with it?

8. What tragedies has Wendell experienced, and what are the effects on his life?

9. What is the cultural problem Sam finds about the lot?

10. What is the “Garcia Equation”?

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