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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. Where does Blevins wait out the thunderstorm?

2. The Mexican woman gives John Grady and Rawlins a lunch after they leave her home. What do they carry the lunch in?

3. Into what game does Don Hector invite John Grady to join?

4. What trick does Rawlins perform that makes the little Mexican girls laugh?

5. How does John Grady say the man named Julius Ramsey killed a lion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Perez say about his ability to control the men in the prison?

2. Why does Blevins say he cannot be outside during the thunderstorm?

3. What is it that Perez says he wants from John Grady?

4. What are the difficulties described by the man who traveled to America to pick up the new horse for Don Hector?

5. On what two things is it said John Grady and Don Hector totally agree?

6. What is the fate of John Grady and of his attacker once the fight ends?

7. What do John Grady and Rawlins do with the deer Rawlins shoots?

8. What does John Grady do with the old man who was imprisoned by the Captain and the young maid who he encountered at the schoolroom before leaving with the Captain?

9. How does John Grady discover that Alejandra has been at the ranch house?

10. What infirmity does Alfonsa have and what does she say about scars?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does it seem that Rawlins always deferred to John Grady's judgments and decisions? Name at least three instances in which this is the case.

Essay Topic 2

What does Perez say about the differences between Mexican and American ideas of good and evil? Compare that to general opinions about races and the stigmas associated with good and evil.

Essay Topic 3

How does Jimmy Blevins come to be involved with John Grady and Rawlins? What are the attitudes of Rawlins and John Grady toward Jimmy Blevins? How do their attitudes differ? Why?

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