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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-13, The Vaquero Never Had a Chance, An Urgent Message, The Patrón.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the gauchos doing with the bulls?
(a) Branding them.
(b) Weighing them.
(c) Driving them into corrals.
(d) Riding them.

2. With whom do Juan, Carlos and Pedro later share Maté?
(a) Pedro's father.
(b) Some gauchos from another ranch.
(c) The Pizzettis.
(d) The mayordomo and his family.

3. What are the Pampas?
(a) The family name of the narrator.
(b) The mountains in the southwest region of Central America.
(c) The name the narrator's society calls the plains where they live.
(d) The mountains in the southwest region of South Dakota.

4. What is the Ombu?
(a) A group of nomads in Argentina.
(b) The solitary tree of the prairie.
(c) A grass that grows on the Pampa.
(d) A group of nomads in Central America.

5. What does the Pampa seem if looked at from an airplane?
(a) Vibrant.
(b) Swampy.
(c) Dead.
(d) Dry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the waterfalls that are depicted on a poster?

2. How is Juan often different from the other men in the area?

3. Who remembers the postcard in Juan's home?

4. What does Juan do one day when he says he is happy?

5. What is the largest city in Argentina?

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