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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. How long does Don Victor believe it will take his family to gather enough gold to buy their way to the U.S.?
(a) Two months.
(b) About a year.
(c) Nine months.
(d) Two and a half years.

2. What does Juan realize as he goes to carry the wood back to the city?
(a) The war is very important to him.
(b) He hates God.
(c) He does not want to return to the town.
(d) The pile of wood is too heavy.

3. Why does Dona Guadalupe and her family crush the gold ore they have discovered into dust?
(a) To make it seem like they have more.
(b) Because it is more ore than gold.
(c) Because that is what you are supposed to do to gold ore.
(d) To make it seem like it came from the river.

4. Victoriano is badly beaten after trying to defend what from the bandits?
(a) His sister.
(b) The gold his family has collected.
(c) His dog.
(d) A food he has just hunted.

5. What is the name of Colonel Maytorena's wife?
(a) Tocarra.
(b) Socorro.
(c) Susanna.
(d) Louisa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Don Victor give to Don Manuel to help him through the wedding ceremony?

2. Why are the people in the village leaving to find work in other areas?

3. What is Espirito searching for in Chapter 1?

4. What special gift does Don Tiburcio bring to Dona Guadalupe for her family to share?

5. Why are the train passengers put off the train and forced to camp while the train leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it so hard for Don Benito to keep the secret that they have discovered gold?

2. Under what circumstances does Guadalupe meet Don Victor and marry him?

3. What is Don Victor's plan to raise enough money for his family to leave for America? How long will this project take?

4. What are Don Pio Castro and his brothers looking for when they set out from Mexico City?

5. Why does Socorro leave to go to the lowlands, and what is Victoriano's response?

6. What has Victoriano done to upset La Liebre?

7. What is Don Manuel's behavior when he comes to perform at Sophia's wedding, and why?

8. What does Lupe's family do for money in Chapter Three?

9. In Chapter Eight, what has recently happened to Emilia?

10. What effect does the revolution have on Don Castro's village?

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