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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antonio accuse Pedro of doing to Ultima?
(a) Allow Maria to marry Gabriel.
(b) Allow his sisters a ride in his truck.
(c) Allow Tenorio to pass judgment.
(d) Allow Narcisco to leave El Puerto.

2. What happens to Antonio the first day of school?
(a) He helps his sisters sort school supplies.
(b) He helps his mother in the kitchen.
(c) He feels sick.
(d) He walks the river with Ultima.

3. What time of the year do Antonio and Ultima roam the countryside looking for herbs?
(a) Late summer.
(b) Late spring.
(c) Early fall.
(d) Early summer.

4. What lesson do the Trementina daughters learn from the death of their sister?
(a) They had tampered with the fate of a man and experienced the consequences.
(b) Evil begets evil; good begets good.
(c) No one can overcome a curse by a la curandera.
(d) Never tempt a brujas.

5. Why are curanderas, such as Ultima, feared by the village residents?
(a) Ultima is descended from a family of witches.
(b) Village residents do not know what town Ultima came from.
(c) Ultima's healing powers are believed to be works of witchacraft.
(d) Ultima places a curse on the village crops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Antonio's father get his education?

2. What is the worst thing a disobedient child could fear from his/her parents?

3. What do the Luna brothers ask Antonio's parents before they leave El Puerto?

4. Why does Antonio's mother call him a luna?

5. What happens to Antonio at the end of the school year?

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