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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Zeke Wooston?
(a) A good friend of Jaime.
(b) A monk and spiritual leader.
(c) The man who buys the bank note to the Mikerin ranch.
(d) A judge.

2. What does Wooston intend to do about the Mikerin family?
(a) Help them with their finances.
(b) Evict them.
(c) Help them with their legal problems.
(d) Sue them.

3. What does Montero say about his speaking with Juan?
(a) Montero vowed never to speak to Juan again.
(b) The Mulkerins will have more luck than Montero will.
(c) Montero does not speak Juan's dialect.
(d) Montero last spoke to Juan many decades ago.

4. Who is Sean?
(a) Eileen's lawyer.
(b) A man who is coming to the Mulkerin home from Mexico.
(c) Eileen's brother.
(d) Eileen's husband.

5. By what was Juan's people's settlement destroyed?
(a) Fire and earthquake.
(b) Just a big fire set by lightening.
(c) Floods.
(d) Ignoring tradition.

6. How does Jaime obtain land in California?
(a) As a reward for service in the Mexican army.
(b) He inherits it from his father.
(c) He marries the woman who owns the land.
(d) He buys it from his brother.

7. Where does Juan take the group?
(a) Into a cave.
(b) Behind a waterfall.
(c) Into a heavily-treed forest.
(d) Onto a hidden trail.

8. Who does Juan take to find the gold?
(a) Sean.
(b) Win.
(c) Montero.
(d) Eileen.

9. How do Eileen's family leave their homeland?
(a) By working for passage on an ocean liner.
(b) By horseback.
(c) By working for passage on a freighter.
(d) On a smuggler's boat.

10. How many sons does Eileen have?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

11. Who caused the fire on the ranch?
(a) Someone who wants to buy the ranch.
(b) A careless ranch hand.
(c) A careless neighbor.
(d) Lightening.

12. What does Eileen say when confronted by Wooston?
(a) She will drop her lawsuit against Wooston.
(b) She will leave the ranch in one month.
(c) She will leave the ranch the next day.
(d) She will pay the note.

13. What is one thing that has put the farm at risk?
(a) Bad luck.
(b) The cows had hoof and mouth disease.
(c) Legal problems.
(d) They grew too much of one crop.

14. What does Juan say to Eileen?
(a) That she is in danger more than the others.
(b) That she is the only one who can find the gold.
(c) That she is the only one who can communicate with Jaime.
(d) That she should not have come.

15. What are the local Indians known as?
(a) Skomish.
(b) Gringos.
(c) Chumash.
(d) Honest men and women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who alerts Eileen that Sean has arrived?

2. Who decides to go looking for Juan?

3. Who is Micheltorena?

4. What does Juan believe is going to happen?

5. How many men does Juan say is following them?

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