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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were killed when Smoky Mountain collapsed?
(a) Nearly 100.
(b) Nearly 200.
(c) Nearly 50.
(d) Nearly 300.

2. What does Raphael say is the reason that he and the other dumpsite boys do not wear shoes?
(a) They need to feel around with their bare feet.
(b) They degrade too quickly as the boys walk amidst the trash.
(c) They are too expensive.
(d) They are growing too fast to keep shoes long anyway.

3. Raphael relates that his life consists of living "day to day" (6) and of hoping for what?
(a) That he does not get attacked by the older men.
(b) That he does not get sick.
(c) That he does not die.
(d) That he can find a treasure.

4. What is the name of the dumpsite in which Raphael and the other dumpsite boys scavenge?
(a) Bangkok.
(b) Bellacourt.
(c) Behala.
(d) Bellingtown.

5. How does Rat know that the key Raphael has found belongs to a locker at the train station?
(a) He had noticed the initials CS on the key and had surmised that the initials stood for Central Station.
(b) He had lived at the train station for nearly a year before coming to Behala.
(c) He had picked a train passenger's pocket once.
(d) He had worked as a train conductor for a short time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the dumpsite boys spend their days looking for in the trash heaps?

2. What number is on the yellow tag attached to the key Raphael finds inside the wallet?

3. What does Raphael say that he must do since nobody is going to "open the door" (11) for him?

4. Why is there no stupp in the trash from the McKinley neighborhood?

5. When the police ask Raphael about the bag he has found and he denies finding a bag, what does he say he has found instead?

(see the answer key)

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