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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5, A Time of Miracles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the Mexican workers work under such horrible conditions?
(a) All are correct.
(b) They did not have many options for employment.
(c) They were at the mercy of American employers that were having difficulties of their own.
(d) They needed work very badly.

2. Why does La Liebre decide to have Victoriano hanged in the town square?
(a) He is angry because the boy talked back to him in a crowd.
(b) Just because.
(c) He and Victoriano are fighting over the same woman.
(d) He thinks the ore he has is more valuable than it is.

3. Because of their efforts in starting a strike, what happens to Lupe and her sisters as employees?
(a) They are punished by having to work longer shifts.
(b) They are promoted above all the other workers.
(c) No one will hire them after the strike.
(d) They lose their jobs but soon find new, better ones.

4. What weapon does Dona Guadalupe give to her son after she frees him from being hanged?
(a) A bow and arrow.
(b) A large dagger.
(c) A heavy hatchet.
(d) An old pistol.

5. Which powerful person is killed by Victoriano?
(a) La Liebre.
(b) Don Tiburcio.
(c) Colonel Maytorena.
(d) Don Manuel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Lupe's sisters organizes a strike so that women can get paid for the work they do?

2. Who is eloping with Maria?

3. Towards the end of Chapter 7, what do the soldiers do in response to the angry crowds they see in the village?

4. In Chapter 12, who does the reader learn has fallen in love with Socorro?

5. What is Don Tiburcio's dying request to his wife?

(see the answer key)

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