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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-13, The Vaquero Never Had a Chance, An Urgent Message, The Patrón.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Ombu?
(a) A grass that grows on the Pampa.
(b) The solitary tree of the prairie.
(c) A group of nomads in Argentina.
(d) A group of nomads in Central America.

2. What are the gauchos doing with the bulls?
(a) Weighing them.
(b) Branding them.
(c) Driving them into corrals.
(d) Riding them.

3. With whom do Juan, Carlos and Pedro later share Maté?
(a) The mayordomo and his family.
(b) Some gauchos from another ranch.
(c) Pedro's father.
(d) The Pizzettis.

4. How does Juan feel about the mayordomo who lives near Juan?
(a) Juan believes the man is cheating his employer.
(b) Juan is not in awe of the man.
(c) Juan thinks the man is incompetent.
(d) Juan thinks he is a good, yet incompetent, man.

5. What does Maria guess is going on with Juan?
(a) She has no idea.
(b) That Juan is moving to Buenos Aires.
(c) That Juan is going to get married.
(d) That Juan is buying his own farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the mayordomo respond to what the Vaquero tells him?

2. What are some adjectives the narrator uses to describe a estanciero/patrón?

3. What does the Vaquero tell the mayordomo about Chúcaro?

4. What did the author of Juan's most important post card forget?

5. What is the reaction of the people who live around the Pampas?

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