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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antonio wonder after Andrew leaves with his brothers for Santa Fe in Chapter 15?
(a) The death of Narcisco influenced Andrew's decision.
(b) Andrew broke up with his girlfriend.
(c) Andrew needed money.
(d) Andrew was fired from his job at Allen's Market.

2. What is the ceremony the priest participated in, in the altar?
(a) Hearing confessions.
(b) Distributing communion hosts to altar boys.
(c) Changing the bread and wine into flesh and blood.
(d) Reading the Easter prayers.

3. What is a scapular?
(a) A small pouch with the pciture of the Virgin or St. Joseph.
(b) A small hoe.
(c) A fish that swims upstream with the golden carp.
(d) A kitchen utensil.

4. What did Father Byrnes do to Bones?
(a) Made him kneel on the splintered pew.
(b) Mde him stand with his arms outspread.
(c) Made him clean the rectory.
(d) Slapped his palms with a flatboard.

5. What does the priest do when Tenorio arrives with his daughter's funeral procession?
(a) Bar the entrance.
(b) Unlock the campo santo.
(c) Make a sign of the cross.
(d) Offer a holy scapular.

6. What are the school children told to do with the Host?
(a) Blow bubbles.
(b) Swallow it immediately.
(c) Chew it like gum.
(d) Swallow in one gulp.

7. Why is Tenorio rageful and threatening to harm Ultima?
(a) He does not have a job.
(b) His dead daughter was not properly buried.
(c) He's having vision problems.
(d) His second daughter is dying.

8. Where will Antonio be spending his upcoming summer.
(a) With his father in the highway department.
(b) With Ultima walking the river.
(c) With the Luna brothers in El Puerto.
(d) With his brothers in Santa Fe.

9. What does Tellez tell Gabriel about the time he ran into Tenorio in an El Puerto saloon?
(a) Tenorio planned to kidnap Antonio.
(b) Tenorio said insulting things to Tellez.
(c) Tenorio sought revenge for la Grande.
(d) Tenorio planned to seek revenge for Gabriel.

10. Where is Tenorio hiding waiting to ambush Narcisco?
(a) Rosie's house.
(b) Town bar.
(c) Narcisco's garden.
(d) School playground.

11. Why does Antonio believe God comes in cycles?
(a) God comes and goes at various times in life.
(b) God moves like the ocean waves.
(c) God moves like the moon's orbit.
(d) God can change the seasons.

12. What happens to Ultima in Antonio's dream in Chapter 13?
(a) She leaves for the llano.
(b) She turns into a carp.
(c) She flies away with the owl.
(d) She dies.

13. What is the coroner's ruling of Narcisco's death?
(a) Genocide.
(b) Accidential or self-inflicted.
(c) Homicide.
(d) Infanticide.

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

15. Who says "where there is no acknowledgment of guilt and penance done for wrong, there can be no forgiveness?"
(a) Ultima.
(b) Maria.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Gabriel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antonio tell Tenorio will happen if he harms Ultima?

2. Why does Tenorio believe Ultima had cursed his dead daughter?

3. What gives a person understanding?

4. What are the holiest robes?

5. Why does a state policeman bring Eugene and Leon home?

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