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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is in the envelope John Grady is given after the knife fight?
(a) Money
(b) A letter
(c) A bus ticket
(d) A pardon

3. What does John Grady buy with the last of the money he has at Los Picos?
(a) Coffee, tortillas, tinned fruit and beans
(b) Coffee, salt, cornmal and tinned fruit
(c) Cornmeal, tinned fruit and beans
(d) Tinned fruit, tortillas, salt and cornmeal

4. What is the dead animal John Grady finds during his ride that afternoon?
(a) A greyhound
(b) A colt
(c) A heifer
(d) A mare

5. What does the Captain use as a sling for his injury?
(a) A rope
(b) A belt
(c) A shirt
(d) A bandana

6. How many farm workers are picked up near Paredon?
(a) Fifteen
(b) Five
(c) Sixteen
(d) Four

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

8. Where does Emilio Perez live?
(a) In a large cell on the ground floor
(b) In a house on the prison grounds but apart from the prisoners
(c) In the cell next to John Grady and Rawlins
(d) Just outside the prison

9. What does John Grady use to cauterize the gunshot wound in his thigh?
(a) The heated barrel of a pistol
(b) The heated edge of a rock
(c) The heated blade of a knife
(d) The heated belt buckle

10. How does John Grady leave the city?
(a) Bus
(b) Walking
(c) Horseback
(d) Flatbed truck

11. Where does John Grady discover the Senora is going to be gone the entire day he arrives back at the ranch?
(a) Shopping
(b) To church
(c) Visiting
(d) To Mexico City

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

13. How are men judged within the prison hierarchy?
(a) Their willingness to kill
(b) The level of their guilt
(c) Their ability to withstand torture
(d) Their possessions

14. What is the name of the prison where John Grady and Rawlins are taken?
(a) Soledad
(b) Prison de Reforma
(c) Castelar
(d) Santa Capsular

15. 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) A wagon
(b) A group of men on horseback
(c) Sheep followed by a truck
(d) Children playing a game

Short Answer Questions

1. When Rawlins says they are in prison over a horse, what is John Grady's reply?

2. What color dress is Alejandra wearing when she arrives at the station to meet John Grady?

3. What is the injury the Captain suffers?

4. Where does John Grady sleep his first night on the road?

5. What kind of drink is John Grady given while he's recuperating from his knife wounds?

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