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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. At which university does Brown attend a protest rally?

2. Whom does Anthony Quinn introduce at the rally?

3. How does the crowd react to Brown's speech at the beginning of Chapter 12?

4. In Chapter 14, Brown finds out that ________________have been asking questions about him.

5. Where do Brown and Zanzibar go after the interview?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems is Brown having with the police while in Mexico?

2. What role does Brown play in the UCLA rally?

3. Why does the judge have both Brown and the defendants arrested in this section?

4. What problems does Brown say he has with Grand Juries?

5. How does Brown start to find connections among Hollywood's elite?

6. How was Zanzibar killed?

7. What does Brown say in his closing speech in Chapter 12?

8. What does Fernando Sumaya tell the court in his testimony?

9. Why does Brown think that Gilbert has no right to question him about Mexico?

10. What claims does Brown make about Zanzibar's murder?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the lives of Mexicans like in America before the Chicano Movement existed? How did the Chicano Movement change life for Mexicans in America?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

Essay Topic 3

How did the politics of the sixties change America? How does Acosta express these changes in his book?

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