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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Valderrama count as the rebels travel to Juchipila?
(a) Crosses.
(b) Burned houses.
(c) Felled trees.
(d) Corpses.

2. What does Demetrio Macias offer to do if Margarito will join him?
(a) Make him a captain.
(b) Put him in the guardhouse.
(c) Make him a colonel.
(d) Make him a major.

3. What injury does the waiter get from Margarito?
(a) A cut on the head.
(b) A wounded foot.
(c) A damaged hand.
(d) A lost ear.

4. Why does War Paint become angry with Camila?
(a) Camila is a better markswoman than War Paint.
(b) Camila is more beautiful than War Paint.
(c) Camila decides to ride with Demetrio Macias
(d) Camila is a better horsewoman than War Paint.

5. Why does Luis Cervantes recommend stopping in Aguascalientes?
(a) They need to rest.
(b) They are running out of money.
(c) They need to bathe and get haircuts.
(d) They need to tend to their wounded.

6. Who takes Luis Cervantes' girlfriend for the night?
(a) Luis Cervantes.
(b) Margarito.
(c) Demetrio Macias.
(d) Anastasio.

7. Who intervenes on behalf of the villager?
(a) Anastasio.
(b) Margarito.
(c) Luis Cervantes.
(d) Camila.

8. What have they spent their money on?
(a) Weapons and ammunition.
(b) Advances and bonuses.
(c) Whiskey and women.
(d) Food and clothing.

9. Why does War Paint leave the celebratory banquet?
(a) She is sick and tired.
(b) She is bored by speeches.
(c) She is sleepy.
(d) She is insulted by speeches.

10. Why have Demetrio Macias' friends prepared a banquet in his honor?
(a) To celebrate his promotion to colonel.
(b) To celebrate his conquering the town.
(c) To celebrate his birthday.
(d) To celebrate his promotion to general.

11. What do Demetrio Macias' men brag about as they drink in the tavern at night?
(a) People they have frightened.
(b) People they have killed.
(c) The future of the country.
(d) Goods they have stolen.

12. How does Anastasio tell the time?
(a) By gauging the light.
(b) By asking War Paint.
(c) By the location of the stars in the Big Dipper.
(d) By his stolen watch.

13. What premonition does Demetrio Macias have?
(a) "Someone's going to kill me."
(b) "Mexico will rise like the sun."
(c) "Something's going to happen to me."
(d) "The Federals will capture me."

14. What does Luis Cervantes offer to Demetrio Macias?
(a) An explanation for the other generals.
(b) A plan for the upcoming pillaging.
(c) An accounting of the goods they have plundered.
(d) A larger share of the loot.

15. What act of Margarito's does Luis Cervantes say was his most noble?
(a) Margarito retired from the army.
(b) Margarito sacrificed himself to save others.
(c) Margarito disappeared.
(d) Margarito killed himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had the two old friends originally become acquainted?

2. In the song Demetrio Macias sings over and over again, why does his assailant stab him?

3. Where does Demetrio Macias receive orders to go from Tepatitlan?

4. What does Demetrio Macias keep in his hands even as he dies?

5. How do the rebels entertain themselves in the afternoon?

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