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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a brawl what does Lencho use to wrap what he bought at the supermarket which had been scattered around the bar?

2. What does Lencho promise his dead son in delirium the afternoon he's buried?

3. What does the name, Ramagacha, mean?

4. What is the desert poetically referred to as?

5. What does Lencho buy at the supermarket?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Loreto run into in the first scene in the book?

2. What does Peluchi do for a living?

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

4. Describe Kite. ( Ffor instance: what does he look like, do all the time and what was his former occupation?)

5. Describe Rudolph Smith Jr.

6. What is Chuco doing when the narrator meets him again ten years later.

7. Describe Bobby Foxye's parents.

8. How many children does Cuamea have and how does he raise them?

9. Who does Judge Rudolph Smith sentence to a mental institution?

10. Describe General Cajetes.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Where is the dead body of Loreto found? By whom? Who notifies the authorities of his death?

2) Who comes to take the dead body of Loreto away? What happens to to Nelson Ortiz during during the loading of Loreto's body into the truck?

3) Describe Loreto's house down by the river. What do the bichigetters find when they tear it apart?

Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe the character, Kite. Why is he so popular with the children? What was his background?

2) Describe the character, Ruperta. What is her appearance? How does she survive?

3) Describe Chuco. What is is admired for? Who are his companions?

Choose two of the three to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1) In what ways is Bobby Foxye a typical hippie of the 1960s?

2) What are two things Bobby Foxye accused his parents of?

3) Who is Rudolph H. Smith? Describe him. What phobia does he have?

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

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