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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Under the House".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of crop does one character talk about, saying if they do well with it he will buy a car in "When We Arrive"?
(a) The onion crop.
(b) The wheat crop.
(c) The apple crop.
(d) The corn crop.

2. Where did the protagonist of "First Communion" burn himself on hot coals?
(a) His torso.
(b) His arm.
(c) His finger.
(d) His calf.

3. What word resounds to the protagonist as he carries his little brother to the house after he collapsed in the fields in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?
(a) Where.
(b) How.
(c) What.
(d) Why.

4. Where does Dona Maria's husband work?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A cotton farm.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A beet farm.

5. At what shrines does the mother claim she has made promises in "A Prayer"?
(a) The Virgen de Zapopan and the Virgen de Jalisco.
(b) The Virgen de Fatima and the Virgen de Andrea.
(c) The Virgen de San Juan and the Virgen de Guadalupe.
(d) The San Juan del Valle and the Virgen de la Leche.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car does the narrator describe Don Laito and Dona Bone as having in "Hand in His Pocket"?

2. How many Sundays does the person praying say they have previously come to pray in "A Prayer"?

3. Who loaned one of the characters money that gave him enough to buy food for two months in "When We Arrive"?

4. What does one migrant worker say the boss looks like now in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

5. At whose house does Don Mateo stay when he goes to find the man who swindled him in "The Portrait"?

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