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Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. When the narrator and his family first arrive in California in “Under the Wire,” Papa learns from the foreman that it will be how long before he can begin work picking strawberries?

A) Two weeks

B) Two days

C) Two months

D) Two years

2. Roberto, as the older brother, serves as a model for the narrator, who doesn’t necessarily understand the circumstances the family is in. Which of the following is an example from “Under the Wire” that demonstrates this relationship between Robert and the narrator?

A) The narrator tucks his shirt in before attempting to slip under the barbed wire fence, just like his brother Roberto did before him.

B) The narrator follows Roberto’s cue and takes his Mama’s other hand to comfort her when she cries with homesickness.

C) The narrator understands the gravity of the situation from observing Roberto’s quiet, sad reaction to finding out that they only have $7 to live on for their first two weeks in the US.

D) The narrator gains a sense of dignity despite the family’s poverty when Roberto shares that he’ll never let his classmates see him wearing dirty clothes.