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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do John Grady and Rawlins eat their first lunchtime of captivity?
(a) Sandwiches
(b) Beans and cornbread
(c) Goat mean and tortillas
(d) Beans and tortillas

2. Who carries John Grady out of the prison yard after the fight?
(a) Perez's man
(b) Rawlins
(c) Perez
(d) A guard

3. What did the Senora study in school?
(a) Sociology
(b) Mathematics
(c) Botany
(d) Biology

4. When Rawlins says they are in prison over a horse, what is John Grady's reply?
(a) That they're better off than Blevins
(b) He says Rawlins is right
(c) That the horse had nothing to do with it
(d) That he'd do it again

5. What gift does John Grady buy for Alejandra while he waits for her?
(a) A silver ring
(b) A gold bracelet
(c) A silver necklace
(d) Jade earrings

6. What do the men take when they catch up with John Grady and the Captain?
(a) The Captain and a horse
(b) Cash and a gun
(c) Only the Captain
(d) A horse and a blanket

7. Who is the man who cuts Rawlins the day after their encounter with Perez?
(a) Perez
(b) Perez's bodyguard
(c) A prison guard
(d) A man Rawlins had never seen before

8. What does John Grady have for dinner with the Reverend and Mrs. Blevins?
(a) Chicken and dressing
(b) Chicken soup
(c) Chicken and dumplins
(d) Chicken and rice

9. What color is the table in Perez's room?
(a) Brown
(b) Green
(c) Black
(d) Blue

10. How does John Grady gain entrance to the school room where he expects to encounter the Captain?
(a) By bribing the maid for a key
(b) By breaking down a door
(c) By opening an unlocked door
(d) By breaking a window

11. Where is the man hiding when he shoots John Grady?
(a) On a roof
(b) Behind a door
(c) Behind Blevins' horse
(d) Behind a pickup

12. What is the injury the Captain suffers?
(a) A dislocated shoulder
(b) A bullet in the upper arm
(c) A broken arm
(d) A bullet in the hand

13. How long had Abuela worked for John Grady's family?
(a) Fifty years
(b) Fourty-five years
(c) Fifteen years
(d) Fifty-five years

14. What does Blevins pull from his boot and give John Grady and Rawlins just before he is killed?
(a) An address
(b) A knife
(c) A letter
(d) Money

15. Why does Perez say he chooses to remain in prison?
(a) He has a good life
(b) He is respected in the prison
(c) He has political enemies
(d) He can't find a way to escape

Short Answer Questions

1. How are men judged within the prison hierarchy?

2. What does the Senora say are the bonds that tie people closest together?

3. Where does John Grady say his country is?

4. What does John Grady buy with the last of the money he has at Los Picos?

5. What is the fate of the Captain?

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