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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. How far do John and Rawlins travel by noon their first day?
(a) Forty-four miles
(b) Four miles
(c) Fourteen miles
(d) Forty miles

2. How does John know his former girlfriend is watching him as he walks away from her?
(a) He sees her reflection in a window.
(b) She calls out to him.
(c) He turns to look.
(d) He does not know.

3. Where does Blevins wait out the thunderstorm?
(a) Under the roots of a tree
(b) Under the edge of a rock overhand
(c) Under teh wide limbs of a tree
(d) In a cave

4. What does Rawlins throw up in the air for the kid to shoot?
(a) His wallet
(b) His plate
(c) A bottle
(d) A rock

5. What is it that John Grady and Rawlins talk about for a time on the night of their second trip away from the Ranch?
(a) How much longer they should remain
(b) Whether anyone was looking for them
(c) Lineage of horses
(d) Alejandra

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the gift his father gives John?

2. How many friends are with Hector Rocha y Villareal the morning after John Grady and Rawlins arrive?

3. Where do John Grady and Rawlins wait out the thunderstorm?

4. Why does John Grady say the horses in the corral are so skittish?

5. Where does the kid say he got his gun?

Short Essay Questions

1. On what two things is it said John Grady and Don Hector totally agree?

2. What does Rawlins say about a "good looking horse?"

3. What does Alejandra say she learned about her father after she told him that she and John Grady were lovers?

4. How does John Grady handle the new horse on his first encounter with it?

5. How does John Grady come to be allowed to ride the prize stallion on the ranch?

6. What is John Grady's reception upon his arrival back at the ranch?

7. How does John Grady discover that Alejandra has been at the ranch house?

8. What does Rawlins say he hates about going home?

9. What do John Grady and Rawlins decide to do when John Grady discovers that someone is following them?

10. Why does John's father say John's mother returned to them when John was a child?

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