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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 Luis Cervantes offer to Demetrio Macias?
(a) A plan for the upcoming pillaging.
(b) An explanation for the other generals.
(c) A larger share of the loot.
(d) An accounting of the goods they have plundered.

2. What does Luis Cervantes advise Venancio to do?
(a) Go to medical school.
(b) Open a Mexican restaurant.
(c) Stay in the army.
(d) Retire to his ranch.

3. Which men have been made majors under General Demetrio Macias?
(a) Margarito and Luis Cervantes.
(b) Pancracio and Anastasio.
(c) Anastasio and Luis Cervantes.
(d) Anastasio and Lard.

4. Where do the rebels sleep in Tepatitlan?
(a) The school.
(b) The church.
(c) People's homes.
(d) The ground.

5. Demetrio Macias says he dreams of ______________.
(a) His children.
(b) Camila.
(c) War Paint.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does War Paint turn to for defense?

2. What is Valderrama's response to learning of the great defeat?

3. What is Demetrio Macias unable to remember?

4. What does Valderrama count as the rebels travel to Juchipila?

5. What does Margarito do to the villager?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Anastasio think the kind of fighting they did when they killed the priest is worth it?

2. What did Demetrio Macias think about on the last night of his life?

3. What painful memory crosses Demetrio Macias' mind as Don Monico pleads for mercy for his wife and children?

4. What lies do the women in Don Monico's house tell to protect themselves?

5. What is the difference between the way Margarito appears to Camila and the way he seems to War Paint?

6. How are the men of the rebel band promoted in military standing?

7. What persuades Demetrio Macias' men that the deserters they encounter are telling the truth about Villa's defeat?

8. Why does Valderrama think the men of the Sierra should be treated differently than the townspeople they have killed and robbed?

9. What dream of Venancio's is quashed by Luis Cervantes?

10. Why do the members of Demetrio Macias' staff all smile in a sinister way when he tells them they are stopping to have lunch with his old friend Don Monico?

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