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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Susana ask Justina if she is killed?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Butterflies.
(c) Birds.
(d) Her cat.

2. Who tries to help don Pedro into the house before he dies?
(a) Eduviges.
(b) Justina.
(c) Susana's ghost.
(d) Damiana.

3. What does Abundio want from don Pedro?
(a) A job.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) A place to live.
(d) Money to bury his wife.

4. Why does El Tilcuate want to disband his men?
(a) Peace is declared.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He is getting married.
(d) He wants to retire.

5. When does Miguel first begin having girls procured for him?
(a) After Fulgor encourages him to have women.
(b) On his 13th birthday.
(c) After he loses a bet.
(d) When he is sick with the measles.

6. What does Susana's mother die of?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Fear.
(c) Old age.
(d) Loneliness.

7. Who tells don Pedro that Susana is back in town?
(a) Father Rentería.
(b) Eduviges.
(c) Damiana.
(d) Fulgor Sedano.

8. Where is don Pedro's lawyer moving to?
(a) Contla.
(b) Eduviges' house.
(c) The Media Luna ranch.
(d) Sayula.

9. Who owns the store that Abundio goes into?
(a) Don Pedro.
(b) Eduviges.
(c) Abundio.
(d) Villalpando.

10. In what month does Susana die?
(a) September.
(b) April.
(c) July.
(d) December.

11. What does don Pedro tell the revolutionaries who come asking for money?
(a) To ask God for forgiveness.
(b) To give up the fight.
(c) To find some women to bed.
(d) To raid a nearby town.

12. Who is the shot that kills don Lucas intended for?
(a) His sister.
(b) The man selling him a horse.
(c) The groom at the wedding.
(d) His son.

13. How many men does don Pedro offer to assist the revolution?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Three hundred.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Twenty.

14. When Father Rentería returns from his walk, who does he learn is waiting for him?
(a) Damiana Cisneros.
(b) Pedro Páramo.
(c) The tax-collector.
(d) Women waiting to confess.

15. What happens to Miguel's mother?
(a) She runs off with another man.
(b) She becomes a nun.
(c) She is killed by revolutionaries.
(d) She dies in childbirth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month does Susana's mother die in?

2. What sin does Father Rentería's first penitent of the day confess?

3. Why don't the people who come from Apango bring ocote pine and oak mulch?

4. Why does Susana want Justina to leave?

5. What is the name of don Pedro's lawyer?

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