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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is narrated in Chapter 7 concerning the gauchos?
(a) How they decide who will be their leader.
(b) How they hunt.
(c) How they catch wild horses.
(d) A typical pastime.

2. Why do the people on the ranch gossip about Juan?
(a) Because Juan has changed his kerchief colors from how he normally wears them.
(b) They do not gossip about him.
(c) Because he is not very friendly.
(d) Because they think he has a shady history.

3. What does a poster on Juan's wall depict?
(a) A picture of a wanted outlaw.
(b) The Amazon River.
(c) The Dakota Badlands.
(d) The Andes Mountains.

4. What do some people think Juan has captured?
(a) The man in the wanted poster.
(b) The goshawk that sits on his porch railing.
(c) The jack rabbit in the cage in his yard.
(d) The dove that sits on his porch railing.

5. What happens when Pedro falls asleep listening to Juan?
(a) Juan carries him inside.
(b) Juan wakes Pedro and has him go home.
(c) Juan leads Chúcaro to Pedro's father's house.
(d) Juan carries him to Pedro's father's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Pedro's father to lose his joy for life?

2. What does Jose think about Juan's actions?

3. Where is this story set?

4. What is another thing the mayordomo does?

5. With what is the outside of Juan's home covered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the jobs of the mayordomo?

2. What do the gauchos love to do when they gather?

3. What does the mayordomo know and what does he not yet know?

4. What does Pedro want his father to do?

5. Briefly describe Pedro.

6. How is Juan feeling as he is making the bola?

7. What happens after Armando's bola strikes Chúcaro?

8. What is the result of Juan's being fired?

9. What does Chapter 7 describe?

10. Who is there to witness Armando's attempt to lasso Chúcaro?

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