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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 Inocencio's job at the Media Luna ranch?
(a) He breaks horses.
(b) He tends to the sick.
(c) He administers the real estate.
(d) He is a custodian.

2. How does Abundio go deaf?
(a) A rocket goes off near his head.
(b) He is shot by a revolutionary.
(c) He is burned.
(d) It is a result of a childhood illness.

3. Why do the men who carry Miguel's coffin complaining after his burial?
(a) They aren't paid for their efforts.
(b) They are hungry.
(c) They are in physical pain.
(d) They all are in love with the same woman.

4. What does the burro driver tell Juan happens to don Pedro?
(a) He owns the Media Luna ranch.
(b) He is "living bile".
(c) He died years ago.
(d) All answers are correct.

5. What does Juan think his mother dies of?
(a) A bad fall.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Poisoning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Eduviges that Juan is coming to town?

2. Who does Chona's lover say he runs off with instead?

3. What happens to Juan's mother?

4. Where is Juan's body found?

5. What makes Ana believe it is Miguel Páramo who rapes her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Miguel Paramo's fate.

2. What does the burro driver tell Juan about how don Pedro treats women?

3. Why does don Pedro want to marry Dolores?

4. Why does María Dyada believe that her sister Eduviges is worthy of redemption?

5. Describe the encounter between Father Rentería and María Dyada after Eduviges' death.

6. What are the two men who Juan hears in the street discussing?

7. How does Fulgor get Dolores to agree to marry Pedro?

8. How do Pedro and Dolores part ways?

9. Why are the two women that Juan encounters in the street worried?

10. What clues are you given as to the boy's family's financial situation?

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