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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 was Manuel also called?
(a) The Grim Reaper.
(b) Poncho Gonzalez.
(c) Papa grande.
(d) Batepi.

2. What does Senora Davalos de Cocuch give to Chalito's mother?
(a) A sympathy note and flowers.
(b) A fancy funeral for Chalito.
(c) A check for Chalito's coffin.
(d) A gravestone for Chalito.

3. How did the man whom Loreto met on his way to church become wealthy?
(a) He was a corrupt politician who pimped out his wife for power.
(b) He owned a fancy hotel.
(c) He owned a large farm.
(d) He invested his money in the stock market.

4. Who did Tony Baba say he looked like when he viewed himself naked in the mirror?
(a) Like Napoleon, but stronger and taller.
(b) Like a Greek statue.
(c) Like a movie star.
(d) Like a weight-lifter.

5. Who is Chuco?
(a) A chicano youth who gets caught up in the revolultion.
(b) A champion cotton-picker who gets in a fight in a brothel.
(c) Loreto's long, lost brother.
(d) The owner of a modest restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Loreto walk?

2. What does the name, Ramagacha, mean?

3. How does Tony Baba's grandmother show herself as truly villainous?

4. What are two characteristics of Don de Cocuch?

5. How do the poor women and children make money?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Kite and tell why the children chase him.

2. Give a short description of Chayo Cuamea.

3. What does one of the two men walking to the San Joaquin Valley complain about?

4. Who is Pedrito Sotolin?

5. What happens to Chayo Cuamea's eldest son, Chayito, and whose godson is he?

6. What does Cuamea get out of the revolution.

7. Who is Dona Reginalda?

8. Who owns the brothel where La Maquerida was put by force and what happens to him?

9. What do the two men see that gives them hope?

10. How does Flaminio Jarandas make his money as a lawyer?

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