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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 Senator Zapanta's first name?
(a) Juan.
(b) Gardo.
(c) Carlos.
(d) Regis.

2. When Rat and Gardo come to ask Olivia to accompany them to Colva Prison, what other purpose is she at first positive that they have in mind?
(a) To ask for a homework extension.
(b) To ask to use the computer.
(c) To ask her to buy them a dog.
(d) To ask for money.

3. How much money does Jose Angelico pay Frederico Gonz as a deposit on the second job?
(a) 100 pesos.
(b) 500 pesos.
(c) 200 pesos.
(d) 400 pesos.

4. What does the letter say would happen to the reader's soul if the reader were to visit Senator Zapanta's house?
(a) It would burn.
(b) It would sing.
(c) It would endure.
(d) It would die.

5. For what purpose does Olivia originally come to Behala?
(a) To collect data about the citizens' hunger problem.
(b) To play in a calypso band.
(c) To study at the nearby university.
(d) For vacation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raphael say he has done with the last of his money, causing him to be too broke to pay for bus fare to Senator Zapanta's house?

2. Whose son is Dante Jerome?

3. How long do the boys spend thinking about how to get the bribe required to pay Marco for his procurement of the Bible?

4. What does Rat use to indicate a kiss in the picture he leaves for Father Juilliard inside the safe?

5. What does Rat use to light his hole dwelling?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the boys are fleeing their small room by jumping from rooftop to rooftop, Rat says, "Under us and all around us, though, the world was full of noise" (178). To what noises is he referring?

2. What is seed-corn money and why does Senator Zapanta's theft of that money ultimately cost the poor twice as much as that seed-corn sum?

3. The first two paragraphs of the Star Extra newspaper report included within the novel suggest that the police will soon find the money stolen from Senator Zapanta's house. Why are the police confident in their ability to find the money?

4. When Raphael and Gardo use Gabriel Olondriz's Bible in order to decipher the code included within the letter the boys had found within the train station locker, why is Rat unable to help them decipher the message and how does this inability add to the difference between him and the other two boys?

5. In what way does Gabriel Olondriz say that he had been betrayed by his legal defense team?

6. Why are there dozens of families living in shacks nearby Colva Prison?

7. When Olivia is confronted by the police due to her showing her passport at Colva Prison and arousing suspicion about her motives, what happens to her?

8. When Olivia and Gardo meet Gabriel Olondriz inside Colva Prison, Olivia states that the old man is dying. What facts does she cite as leading her to this conclusion?

9. How does Rat describe his relationship with Father Juilliard and how does this relationship affect Rat's decision to steal money from the school's safe?

10. Why does Gardo interrupt Olivia's narration of the jail visit with his own narration in Part 3, Chapter 6?

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