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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Juan say to Eileen?
(a) That she is in danger more than the others.
(b) That she is the only one who can communicate with Jaime.
(c) That she is the only one who can find the gold.
(d) That she should not have come.

2. Who is still awake when Sean and Mariana reach the Mulkerin house?
(a) Michael.
(b) Eileen.
(c) No one.
(d) Win.

3. Where is Jaime at the opening of the story?
(a) Deceased.
(b) In Ireland.
(c) Living on the ranch that is closest to the Mulkerin Ranch.
(d) In Mexico.

4. Who is part Indian and part Spanish?
(a) Wooston.
(b) Silva.
(c) Machado.
(d) Fernandez.

5. Who decides to go looking for Juan?
(a) Just Montero.
(b) Sean, Montero, Eileen and Mariana.
(c) Just Sean and Eileen.
(d) Just Eileen and Montero.

6. Why does Juan say it is important for the party to remember the route?
(a) Because Juan is going to die soon.
(b) Because it is dangerous to get off the path.
(c) Because Juan's memory is lagging.
(d) Because other people will try to find the route.

7. How does Jaime obtain land in California?
(a) As a reward for service in the Mexican army.
(b) He marries the woman who owns the land.
(c) He buys it from his brother.
(d) He inherits it from his father.

8. By what was Juan's people's settlement destroyed?
(a) Floods.
(b) Fire and earthquake.
(c) Ignoring tradition.
(d) Just a big fire set by lightening.

9. To whom did Jaime direct Juan to tell a secret?
(a) Just Sean.
(b) No one.
(c) Sean or Eileen.
(d) Just Eileen.

10. What did Jaime find twice?
(a) A way around Eileen's legal problems.
(b) A way to send one son to Ireland.
(c) Gold.
(d) A lost calf.

11. What does Eileen say when confronted by Wooston?
(a) She will leave the ranch the next day.
(b) She will drop her lawsuit against Wooston.
(c) She will leave the ranch in one month.
(d) She will pay the note.

12. What does Sean not understand?
(a) How his mother keeps up with the men.
(b) Why Juan will not take them to the gold.
(c) Why Juan will take them to the gold.
(d) How Juan and other "old ones" know things when there is no obvious signs.

13. What does Sean have in his hands?
(a) A whip.
(b) A recorder.
(c) A pistol.
(d) A shotgun.

14. Where is Eileen's father killed?
(a) Spain.
(b) Alabama.
(c) England.
(d) Mexico.

15. How old is Juan?
(a) 44.
(b) 103.
(c) No one knows.
(d) 80.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what are the Mulkerins looking in the hills?

2. What is Michael's occupation?

3. How does Sean feel towards Juan?

4. What does Sean think Wooston would not do?

5. What unusual gift did Jaime have that Eileen admired?

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