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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 was the only person who could have persuaded Beatriz not to move to Monterrey?

2. Why did Simonopio not go to Monterrey with the Morales family?

3. In Chapter 72, where did Espiricueta stomp on Francisco?

4. How long did Simonopio sleep after he brought Francisco Junior home?

5. How much time were the workers given in Chapter 87 to purchase their sharecropped land?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Francisco Junior's condition when Simonopio reached him?

2. What did Espiricueta do when he found Francisco Junior?

3. Why did Francisco Junior ride a pony to school?

4. What does Francisco Junior tell Nico in Chapter 100?

5. What did the narrator say in Chapter 61 about Francisco Junior not remembering what happened on his seventh birthday?

6. What decisions did Beatriz make after her husband died, and what was her life and Francisco Junior's lives like?

7. How did Linares change during the time Francisco Junior was gone?

8. In Chapter 66, what did Francisco Junior have to do?

9. Why was Espiricueta prevented from killing Francisco Junior?

10. In Chapter 91, what was given away and what was taken by the Morales family to Monterrey?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Simonopio was Francisco Junior’s protector and friend. When did Simonopio begin caring for Francisco Junior? How did their relationship develop? What did their relationship communicate about loyalty?

Essay Topic 2

The author used the stream of consciousness point of view as Francisco was dying. How did the author use Francisco’s internal monologue and stream of conscious to depict Francisco’s thoughts and feelings? How did the use of stream of consciousness enable readers to understand Francisco’s dying thoughts?

Essay Topic 3

Simonopio was born with a cleft palate. What is a cleft palate? Why did some people believe the deformity was from the devil? How did the deformity affect his life and how people treated him?

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