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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 food did Peralta love during his first winter in America?
(a) Ice cream.
(b) Beans.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Ketchup.

2. What do Peralta's Collegiate classmates make fun of him about that makes him very angry?
(a) His dark skin.
(b) His brother.
(c) His mother's name and ethnicity.
(d) His not having a father.

3. What program helps Peralta and his family afford food?
(a) WIC.
(b) RLA.
(c) MIT.
(d) PRC.

4. In Chapter 5, what is Peralta's reading assignment for the summer from Prep?
(a) A Light in the Forest.
(b) Nicholas Nickleby.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) The Count of Monte Cristo.

5. Which kid starts bullying Peralta because Peralta is interested in his girlfriend?
(a) Geno.
(b) Frank.
(c) Merly.
(d) Rick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Father Michael tell Peralta the Resurrection kids make fun of him?

2. Which senator does Peralta begin the book with a quote from?

3. What day does Peralta's father leave the United States for good?

4. What drug plagues Peralta's neighborhood in Harlem?

5. What year was the Collegiate school founded?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Peralta's family afford to eat when he and Yando are young children and his mother can not work for lack of papers?

2. In Part I, what is one of Peralta's early negative experiences with police?

3. What was Peralta's and his family's main holiday diversion during his childhood while they lived in the homeless shelter?

4. Why does Peralta decide not to tell his mother about his breathing problems in Part II?

5. Why do Peralta's parents go their separate ways in the early 1990s?

6. Why does Peralta's mother neglect to stay in touch with her sisters for so long?

7. Why does Peralta decide he wants to attend an Ivy League school?

8. What differences does Peralta feel between his neighborhood in Harlem and the Upper West Side, where his private school is located?

9. Why does Peralta's mother have a falling out with her family in Chapter 1?

10. What do Peralta and the other boys at Resurrection like to do with Father Michael?

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