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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who drives to Guadalupe to warn Ultima that Tenorio was coming to get her?
(a) Lucas.
(b) Pedro.
(c) Antonio.
(d) Juan.

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

4. Who shoots Tenorio?
(a) Antonio.
(b) Gabriel.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) Pedro.

5. What does Ultima's owl do to Tenorio?
(a) Gouges his one eye with its talons.
(b) Knocks him off his horse.
(c) Plucks the whiskey bottle from his hand.
(d) Rips his beard from his face.

6. What does Antonio see when he looked at the northern blue skies?
(a) A winged bruja.
(b) Two hawks circling.
(c) The Virgin's horned moon.
(d) Ultima's owl thrashing.

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

8. What does Ultima tell the men to make to ward off the evil curse?
(a) Juniper branches next to a damp casket.
(b) Yerba de la vivora brush laced with herbs.
(c) A juniper platform to put a dead body.
(d) A four posted platform made of cedar to burn.

9. What does a wise man do?
(a) Listen to the earth.
(b) Follow the river's path.
(c) Watch the moon journey from east to west.
(d) Follow the rising sun.

10. What sin did God commit for Florence?
(a) He allowed his mother to drink and his father to die.
(b) He took his mother and father away when he needed them.
(c) He forced him to endure the children's Indian torture.
(d) He gave him his sisters.

11. When does Antonio make his First Communion?
(a) Easter Sunday.
(b) Easter Monday.
(c) Holy Saturday.
(d) Good Friday.

12. What happened to Florence's mother?
(a) She died when he was three.
(b) She married another man.
(c) She drank too much whiskey.
(d) She left town.

13. What starts to fall from the roof outside of Tellez home?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Branches.
(c) Bricks.
(d) Moon beams.

14. Why does Tenorio believe Ultima had cursed his dead daughter?
(a) He finds Ultima's herbs in his daughter's bedroom.
(b) He finds Ultima's stringed bag under his daughter's bed.
(c) His other daughters blame Ultima for her death.
(d) He finds Ultima's owl preparing a nest beside his daughter's bedroom window.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are mortal sins?

2. What does Tellez tell Gabriel about the time he ran into Tenorio in an El Puerto saloon?

3. What does Cico tell Tony he must do for himself?

4. Where os Christ on Easter Sunday?

5. What question does Antonio have about God?

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