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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3, The Crying Tree.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is having trouble keeping the secret that they have discovered gold?
(a) Lupe and Victoriano.
(b) Don Victor.
(c) Victoriano and Don Benito.
(d) Dona Guadalupe.

2. Where does Lupe go to school?
(a) The small school in the next town.
(b) The American compound near the mine.
(c) At her neighbors, Tia Juanita's.
(d) At the Universidad.

3. Why is Victoriano looking through the discarded ore for gold?
(a) He wants to be a successful businessman.
(b) His mother needs help paying the bills.
(c) He is trying to get enough gold to make a ring.
(d) He is deliberately trying to anger the Americans.

4. What do Epitacio and Juan see across the Rio Grande?
(a) Nothing but the same poor people and ugly streets.
(b) They see another war on the other side.
(c) The untouched houses of the Americans.
(d) A wild forest.

5. Why does Socorro throw out all of her husband's clothing?
(a) She recognizes that she should donate them to others.
(b) She needs to move and cannot take them all with her.
(c) She is angry and wants to say good-bye to him forever.
(d) She is going to buy him all new clothes for his return.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Juan use to bundle up the firewood he has collected?

3. What does Dona Guadalupe offer to make for Don Benito?

4. Who makes fun of Lupe in front of the whole class on her first day at school?

5. Which of Dona Guadalupe's daughters does Don Tiburcio seek to marry?

(see the answer key)

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