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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Spaniards do to some of the Indians when they came to Mexico?
(a) Put them into prison.
(b) Banished them to Arizona and Texas.
(c) Caused them to die of sickness.
(d) Forced them into slave labor.

2. How do Ernie and his cousins view the rooster?
(a) As brave.
(b) As a scaredy cat.
(c) As stupid.
(d) As lazy.

3. Who collects unbaptized children and carries them off?
(a) The Wailer.
(b) El Chupecabra.
(c) The Devil.
(d) The Weeping Woman.

4. What does the Weeping Woman's presence foreshadow?
(a) Death.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Volcanic erruptions.
(d) The birth of a child.

5. What slang term for cowardly is used by Ernie's mother in Part One, Section 4?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Spineless.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Scaredy cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the priest expel Josy?

2. What is the name of the time when Indian tribes had their own system of authority?

3. How does Ernie receive his education, for the most part?

4. What profession is Ernie interested in in Part One, Section 5?

5. Who comments that buzzards are "chickens"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ernie react when he sees Coronel mating with the hen?

2. How is Jalcocotbn described in Part One, Section 1?

3. What is pinole and what is it for?

4. Describe Don Cleofas.

5. What does Dosa Eduvijes do and why?

6. From Ernie's description of Jalco, what does the daily lifestyle seem like in the village?

7. How does Ernie feel about the arrieros?

8. What are the government and religious institutions like in Jalco?

9. How does Ernie describe the various animals in Part One, Section 3?

10. What does Ernie's education in Part One, Section 5 mainly consist of?

(see the answer keys)

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