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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. With whom is Nick running a literary magazine in Los Angeles?
(a) Max
(b) Carlos
(c) Felix
(d) Pascual

2. Which of the following does not accurately describe Marian's life?
(a) Hardship
(b) Unhappiness
(c) Support
(d) Bitterness

3. What is the name of the woman married to Pascual who helps to run the newspaper?
(a) Marrianne
(b) Lucille
(c) Lydia
(d) Meghan

4. What happens to Carlos and his mother on the way home from Puxzzorobio?
(a) They are attacked by a band of thieves
(b) The rising river sweeps away all their beans.
(c) They are robbed of all of their hard earned money
(d) They lose their way and become lost in the countryside

5. What do five white men do to Jose and Carlos?
(a) Take them away to Mexico
(b) Bribe them
(c) Kill them
(d) Kidnap them

Short Answer Questions

1. What business did Alfredo want Carlos to enter?

2. What does Carlos' father turn to when he loses the court case about his land?

3. Where is Carlos trying to sleep when he is confronted by the police?

4. How much money does Carlos earn from his time at the cannery?

5. Alfredo is friendly with __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Carlos fired from his job as a dishwasher?

2. Why does Marian give Carlos several hundred dollars?

3. Why is Jose arrested?

4. What do Felix, Nick and Carlos decide they must work on to improve?

5. How does Carlos convince Amado that he is indeed his brother?

6. Why are there more and more peasant uprisings?

7. How do Carlos and Marcelo lose their money?

8. Why are the characters so rushed to finish the harvest?

9. What happens to Alonzo?

10. Why are many different people arriving in the city, Linagayen, as Carlos arrives there?

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