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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. How often did the Miranda family come to visit the hacienda during a typical year?
(a) Once or twice.
(b) More than ten times.
(c) Four or five times.
(d) Never.

2. Why doesn't the old gringo answer any of the horse salesman's questions?
(a) Because he doesn't speak to peasants.
(b) None of these answers is correct.
(c) Because he is worried about being followed.
(d) Because he doesn't speak Spanish.

3. Where is the old gringo buried?
(a) In a field of flowers.
(b) In the desert.
(c) In a riverbank.
(d) In the mountains.

4. Whom does Harriet live with in Washington D.C.?
(a) Her best friend.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her mother.

5. What type of feeling does the old gringo begin to have toward General Arroyo after meeting alone with him in his home?
(a) Aggressive.
(b) Paternal.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Brotherly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who organizes the cleanup of the hacienda fire?

2. What does the general throw into the air for the old gringo to shoot?

3. What type of person does the old gringo compare General Arroyo to?

4. Which of the following descriptions best describes La Garduña?

5. What color is the horse that the old gringo purchases?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Colonel push his crew to hurry up with the old gringo's body?

2. What reaction does Harriet have to seeing that the jewels she has set out have vanished?

3. What childhood memory does Arroyo have of don Graciano?

4. How does Harriet feel upon returning home from Mexico?

5. Who is Mr. Delaney?

6. What do the guerrilla soldiers use their captured train for?

7. What is the nature of the conversation which transpires between the old gringo and the man who is selling him his horse?

8. How does Harriet figure out who the old gringo truly is?

9. What does the old gringo carry with him when he travels?

10. What happens in the few moments leading up to the old gringo's death?

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