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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the hotel where John Grady waits for Alejandra?
(a) The Castelar
(b) The Ritz
(c) The Reina Christna
(d) The Plaza de Armas

2. What is the first thing the Captain asks Rawlins?
(a) For the location of stolen horses
(b) For information about Blevins
(c) For his confession
(d) For his passport

3. What does the charro hand John Grady as John Grady is riding out of the stable yard with the Captain?
(a) The reins to Blevins' horse
(b) A knife
(c) A pistol
(d) His hat

4. How many guards travel with John Grady, Rawlins and Blevins?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Five

5. Where does Rawlins say he wants to go next?
(a) Home
(b) Wherever John Grady goes
(c) To see Alejandra
(d) To find work at another ranch

6. Where does John Grady say his country is?
(a) He says it is Mexico.
(b) He says it is Texas.
(c) He says it is wherever he can find horses.
(d) He says he does not know.

7. The day John Grady reaches San Buenaventura, he sees some children. What are they playing?
(a) They are playing baseball.
(b) They are playing tag.
(c) They are playing cards.
(d) They are splashing in the water.

8. How does Blevins say he recovered his gun?
(a) A man gave it to him
(b) Slipped into a house and took it
(c) Snatched it from a man's belt
(d) He doesn't say

9. What refreshment are John Grady, Rawlins and Blevins given when they stop in Ocampo?
(a) Cider
(b) Lemonade
(c) Water
(d) Orange soda water

10. What is the fate of the Captain?
(a) He passes out and John Grady leaves him behind.
(b) His fate is never revealed.
(c) John Grady hands him over to the authorities.
(d) The men kill him.

11. What is the scene depicted on the tapestry in the room where the Senora and John Grady meet?
(a) A fighting bull
(b) Two horses drinking from a pool
(c) A meeting of two horsemen
(d) A herd of horses running

12. What gift does John Grady buy for Alejandra while he waits for her?
(a) Jade earrings
(b) A gold bracelet
(c) A silver necklace
(d) A silver ring

13. Who does John Grady say must have paid their way out of prison?
(a) Alejandra
(b) Blevins
(c) Don Hector
(d) Alejandra's godmother

14. John Grady passes up the offer of a bed one night and sleeps in a grove of trees. What is in the road the following morning?
(a) Children playing a game
(b) A wagon
(c) A group of men on horseback
(d) Sheep followed by a truck

15. What does John Grady go to Perez's quarters to ask?
(a) For protection
(b) Rawlins' condition
(c) For money
(d) For a job

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first real meal John Grady is given after his injury from the knife fight?

2. What does John Grady use to cauterize the gunshot wound in his thigh?

3. What does Blevins pull from his boot and give John Grady and Rawlins just before he is killed?

4. What game does John Grady kill for food soon after parting ways with the Captain?

5. How long does it take John Grady to tell the judge his story about how he came to have Blevins' horse?

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