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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. Who offers to drive John Grady around to look for a girl he likes at a whorehouse?
(a) A cab driver.
(b) Billy.
(c) Troy.
(d) Mac.

2. Who does John Grady find wandering outside and goes to sit with him in Chapter 2?
(a) Mr. Johnson.
(b) Mac.
(c) Troy.
(d) Eduardo.

3. What does John Grady tell Billy he wants to do with Magdalena at a saloon in Chapter 2?
(a) Marry her.
(b) Kill her.
(c) Kidnap her.
(d) Sleep with her.

4. What age is the young woman John Grady becomes fascinated with on his first visit to the whorehouse?
(a) 15 or 17.
(b) 19 or 21.
(c) 20.
(d) 12 or 14.

5. When John Grady pays a man to find the whorehouse where a woman he likes is located, by what name does the man refer to the woman?
(a) Hyena.
(b) Epileptica.
(c) Psycho.
(d) Bonita.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following descriptions does not describe the condition of the house John Grady acquires for he and Magdalena the first time he sees it?

2. Who warns John Grady to not spend much time with Mr. Johnson in Chapter 2?

3. What is the message Magdalena sends to John Grady at the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. Who tells John Grady he is crazy for wanting to marry Magdalena?

5. What is the relationship between Mr. Johnson and Margaret?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mr. Johnson describe a stampede he once dealt with to John Grady in Chapter 2?

2. How is the house at Bell Springs first described in the book?

3. What is the nature of the message Magdalena sends to John Grady through a waiter?

4. What happens to Magdalena after she spends her first night with John Grady?

5. How is John Grady able to find the location of the young Mexican girl he first saw at the beginning of the book?

6. What happens when Troy and Billy pass a group of Mexicans broken down on the side of the road?

7. How does Magdalena tell John Grady she came to be a whore?

8. What is Billy's reaction when John Grady tells him the girl he likes lives at the White Lake whore house?

9. How is the cowboy's rivalry with a man called Wolfenbarger described in the book?

10. How is the cowboy's dog hunt for mountain lions described in the book?

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