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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 is described as the main thoroughfare of Baja in Chapter 5?
(a) Highway 1.
(b) Highway 30.
(c) Highway 3.
(d) Highway 10.
2. What is the title of Chapter 8?
(a) "The Temptation of Home."
(b) "What Happens If I Go Home?"
(c) "The Coast is Clear."
(d) "The Cathedral Sits on the Temple."
3. What are the "alien-looking trees" that began to appear on the landscape in central Baja (88)?
(a) Jacaranda.
(b) Boojums.
(c) La Tipa.
(d) Pumilio.
4. For how long did the author and Weston stay with Alfonso?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 7 days.
(d) 5 days.
5. For how long did the author work for his friend Jason's nonprofit company?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 3 years.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author says in Chapter 2 that on their first night, he had in his mind that he wanted to sleep under a bridge because it was something that what writer would have done?
2. What is the title of Chapter 9?
3. Where did the author and Weston stay with the author's former rommate's father in Chapter 5?
4. What is the title of Chapter 6?
5. Who was the boy that teased the author at his new school in seventh grade for having a voice that was too high?
Short Essay Questions
1. What caused the author's trip to be halted in Nexpa?
2. What paradox does the author describe in growing up in the Prologue?
3. How does the author describe the last conversation he had about his sexuality with his mother in Chapter 8?
4. What bolstered Weston's and Jenkins's sense of comraderie in Chapter 6?
5. Who wrote the quote that opens the Prologue, and what does this quote mean?
6. How is Mexico City described by the author in Chapter 8?
7. How does the author describe the setting where he grew up in Chapter 6?
8. How do Mexicans view their history differently than Americans, according to the author in Chapter 8?
9. What did the author do to prepare for his journey?
10. What does "xenophobia" mean and how is it illustrated in the book?
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