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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the crowd do to Jerónimo and Josefa in the end?
(a) They injure them.
(b) They kill them.
(c) They kidnap them.
(d) They banish them.

2. What did Jerónimo and Josefa do after Jerónimo lost his job?
(a) They planned to run away together.
(b) They had a secret relationship.
(c) They severed all ties.
(d) They begged others for forgiveness.

3. What does Don refuse to do?
(a) Leave Jerónimo and Josefa behind.
(b) Listen to Jerónimo and Josefa.
(c) Listen to God.
(d) Give food or advice to the young couple.

4. How long is Jerónimo unconscious?
(a) An hour or so.
(b) A quarter of an hour.
(c) Over an hour.
(d) Half an hour.

5. What does a man announce in the church?
(a) That someone has stolen his cow.
(b) That another earthquake will take place.
(c) That Jerónimo and Josefa blame themselves for the earthquake.
(d) That Jerónimo and Josefa are present.

6. What does the priest make sure to point out?
(a) His own survival and the survival of the church.
(b) Those who perished.
(c) The importance of remembering the earthquake.
(d) Jerónimo's and Josefa's circumstances.

7. Who lives at the place where Jerónimo and Josefa plan to go?
(a) Jerónimo's brother and nephew.
(b) Josefa's sister.
(c) Jerónimo's uncle.
(d) A close friend of Josefa's.

8. Why does the father of another baby approach Josefa?
(a) His wife is too injured to nurse their son.
(b) His baby is sick.
(c) His wife just gave birth and he is unsure of what to do.
(d) His child will not stop crying.

9. What happens to Jerónimo's and Josefa's baby?
(a) The baby is taken away.
(b) The baby is raised at the church.
(c) Don and his wife adopt him.
(d) The baby dies.

10. Where does Josefa live?
(a) In a nearby village.
(b) At a convent.
(c) In a simple hut.
(d) In a large mansion.

11. When does a father of another baby approach Josefa?
(a) The night of the earthquake.
(b) Immediately following the earthquake.
(c) The afternoon following the earthquake.
(d) The morning after the earthquake.

12. Where does Jerónimo find Josefa?
(a) Amongst the rubble.
(b) At the church.
(c) Sitting peacefully on a hillside.
(d) Near a stream.

13. What happens after Josefa helps the father?
(a) The father weeps.
(b) The father gives Josefa food.
(c) Josefa and Jerónimo are accepted into the group of survivors.
(d) The survivors give blankets and medicine to the young couple.

14. What happens to Don's baby?
(a) It is stricken ill.
(b) It is killed.
(c) It is beaten.
(d) It is taken away.

15. What happened to the convent where the baby was being cared for?
(a) It caught on fire.
(b) Nothing happened to it.
(c) It was looted.
(d) It collapsed immediately.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the group decide to attend?

2. What were priests running through the streets yelling?

3. Where is this event taking place?

4. In what year does the earthquake in the story take place?

5. What were people doing when Jerónimo and Josefa awoke the morning after the earthquake?

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