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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 the name of the mines on-site manager?
(a) Nostromo
(b) Don Pepe
(c) Mr. Hyman
(d) Mr. Gould

2. What is the only thing that keeps Decoud in Sulaco?
(a) His friendship with Nostromo
(b) The silver mine
(c) His love for Mrs. Gould
(d) His love for Antonia

3. In what part of Europe does Mrs. Gould discover true peasantry?
(a) Southern Europe
(b) Nothern Europe
(c) Western Europe
(d) Eastern Europe

4. Who is Gould's business partner?
(a) Nostromo
(b) Joseph Mitchell
(c) The Holroyds
(d) President Ribieria

5. Who does Giorgio fight alongside in Italy?
(a) Leonardo
(b) Garibaldi
(c) Di Sica
(d) Robinho

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives on these islands?

2. Which family's routine is described in this chapter?

3. What is the name of the fur merchant?

4. What is the name of the town?

5. Who prospers when the mine opens?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Martin Decoud.

2. In what way does Chapter 7, Part 1, indicate that the mine is already creating a gulf between the Goulds?

3. In what way do Decoud's plans change?

4. Why is Ribiera important to the industrialists?

5. What is the Viola family's opinion of Nostromo?

6. What is Giorgio's idea of revolution?

7. In what way does the party in Chapter 5, Part 2, reflect the problems that resulted in the civil war?

8. What is the chairman trying to do to build his railway?

9. Describe General Barrios.

10. What happens to the Americans that go in search of the silver mine?

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