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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 does Susana's mother always say?
(a) Good things come to those who wait.
(b) God never forgives, only people.
(c) You can count on God's mercy.
(d) Sinners never get to heaven.

2. When Justina is in the marketplace, what is her complaint?
(a) That there are too many people around.
(b) That she misses Susana.
(c) That she sees ghosts.
(d) Everything costs too much.

3. How many men is El Tilcuate fighting with?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Four thousand.
(c) None.
(d) Seven hundred.

4. Who is supposedly killed El Tilcuate?
(a) The Villistas.
(b) Donis.
(c) Abundio.
(d) His own men.

5. How does Abundio's wife die?
(a) Drowning.
(b) From complications after childbirth.
(c) She is murdered.
(d) Suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does don Pedro do to the man who remembers don Pedro's death from his grave?

2. Who owns the store that Abundio goes into?

3. What is the name of Susana's servant?

4. What does Susana tell Justina that she believes in?

5. What does Pedro initially tell Father Rentería to do with Miguel when he is a baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the reader first hears Susana's narrative, where does she think she is?

2. How does Fulgor compare Miguel to don Pedro?

3. Why doesn't Abundio's wife get last rites?

4. Why does don Pedro want Susana's father to disappear in the mines?

5. Why do Angeles and Fausta think Susana doesn't need confess her sins?

6. Why is Villalpando in such a bad mood?

7. Why does Father Rentería feel guilty about Miguel's crimes?

8. How does don Pedro avenge his father's death?

9. What deal does don Pedro make with Susana's father?

10. Why doesn't don Pedro's lawyer continue holding his papers after he leaves?

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