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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the significant feature of Marez blood?
(a) Marez blood bleeds blue, the color of la Virgen de Guadalupe.
(b) Marez blood flows backwards like the River of the Carp.
(c) Marez blood saturates the earth like a thunderstorm.
(d) Marez blood is wild like ocean waves.

2. What future does Antonio's mother believe an education will provide Antonio?
(a) Becoming a landowner.
(b) Becoming a businessman.
(c) Becoming a government official.
(d) Becoming a scholarly priest.

3. Why does Antonio's father not like priests?
(a) Antonio's grandfather did not approve of priests.
(b) Antonio's father had seen a priest beat his grandfather.
(c) Antonio's grandfather had beaten a priest for preaching against his grandfather.
(d) Antonio's father had beaten a priest after an argument.

4. Antonio lives at home with his parents and two sisters. Where are his three brothers?
(a) Farming in Guadalupe.
(b) Working in a factory in Las Pasturas.
(c) Working for Benito Campos.
(d) Fighting in the war.

5. What is the significant characteristic of Luna blood?
(a) Luna blood is quiet so that it can listen to the secrets of the earth necessary for planting.
(b) Luna blood runs thick so that plants can take root in the earth.
(c) Luna blood does not clot because no plant could take root.
(d) Luna blood seeps into the earth under the magical sky with a million stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Antonio driven to accomplish at school?

2. What is burned at the foot of the Virgin's statue when the Marez family prays the rosary?

3. Where does Andrew write in his letter that his brothers would meet?

4. Which brother is considered most like Antonio's mother?

5. What does Ultima teach Antonio about plants in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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