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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the largest city in Argentina?
(a) Buenos Aires.
(b) Chaco.
(c) Chubut.
(d) Salta.
2. What do gauchos love doing?
(a) Going into the big city.
(b) Riding the range.
(c) Telling stories.
(d) Climbing mountains.
3. What is the reaction of the people who live around the Pampas?
(a) They think it is pretty lifeless, but it's their home.
(b) They love it in some seasons and hate it in others.
(c) They don't have much reaction to it.
(d) They love it.
4. What is one instance when the weather around Pedro's home is sad?
(a) When it rains so long, homes are flooded.
(b) When it's so dry there is dust on everything.
(c) When hail destroys the crops.
(d) When it's so cold, it's difficult to be outside.
5. To whom does the Pampas "sing"?
(a) The animals who live there.
(b) No one.
(c) The scientists who come to study it.
(d) Those who are close to it.
6. What is a very rich land owner called?
(a) Estanciero.
(b) There is no special name for such a person.
(c) Patron.
(d) Cabolo.
7. What is the most important postcard Juan has?
(a) One he receives from a girl.
(b) One that is sold to tourists that depicts his father on a horse.
(c) One that announces the return of the native peoples to their lands.
(d) One telling him he is granted some farmland.
8. Who tries to buy Chúcaro?
(a) Juan.
(b) No one.
(c) An Indian and a bookkeeper.
(d) Carlos.
9. Where does the land owner of a large group of farms often stay?
(a) In other parts of the world.
(b) It depends on what any particular ranch is doing at the moment.
(c) On the estate closest to a large city.
(d) On his birth estate.
10. What is one thing the mayordomo does?
(a) Approves marriages.
(b) Manages the health of horses.
(c) Petitions the governemnt for easier regulations.
(d) Decides capital crime punishments.
11. Of what material is Juan's home made?
(a) Mud.
(b) Straw.
(c) Brick.
(d) Sod.
12. What do most people remember seeing in Juan's house?
(a) The picture of Pedro and his father.
(b) The wanted poster.
(c) The picture Juan painted of Chúcaro.
(d) The picture of Juan's mother.
13. What does Juan have many of in his home?
(a) Baskets.
(b) Children.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Musical instruments.
14. What is the Ombu?
(a) The solitary tree of the prairie.
(b) A group of nomads in Central America.
(c) A group of nomads in Argentina.
(d) A grass that grows on the Pampa.
15. Where does Pedro want to keep Chúcaro?
(a) Free on the Pampas.
(b) In a barn.
(c) Inside.
(d) In the corral.
Short Answer Questions
1. How is Gitana described?
2. What are the Pampas?
3. What does Maria tell Luisa?
4. Why is Juan angry with Pedro?
5. What is maté?
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