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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. Who is Don Juan?
2. What is Espirito searching for in Chapter 1?
3. What year does the Mexican Revolution start?
4. What is in the pack that Don Victor brings on his back upon his return to his family?
5. Where does Don Victor go in search of work?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Socorro leave to go to the lowlands, and what is Victoriano's response?
2. What events lead to the death of Don Tiburcio?
3. What are Don Pio Castro and his brothers looking for when they set out from Mexico City?
4. Where does Juan look to gather firewood to sell?
5. What is Don Victor's plan to raise enough money for his family to leave for America? How long will this project take?
6. What is the condition that the townspeople put on collecting the gold from the spring?
7. What is Don Manuel's behavior when he comes to perform at Sophia's wedding, and why?
8. In Chapter Eight, what has recently happened to Emilia?
9. What effect does the revolution have on Don Castro's village?
10. How is El Paso described the first time Juan and his family see it, and how do they feel upon arriving?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the difference between major and minor characters, the purpose for each in a work of fiction, and provide three examples (if possible) for minor and major characters.
Essay Topic 2
Please define what characterization is and its purpose in a literary work, as well as the two specific types of characterization reviewed in class. Give three examples from the novel of the author's use of characterization (you may use the book for this essay question). Please use specific quotes or samples from the book that show characterization.
Essay Topic 3
Please define the two major reasons that so many Mexican residents, such as Lupe and her family, immigrated to the United States during the early 1900s. Please provide examples from the story. What are those who left Mexico for the U.S. looking for upon arriving in America? What do they find?
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