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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three (to page 191),.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What information about Jalcocotbn is shared at the beginning of the story?
(a) Information about the lack of education and work in the city.
(b) Information about the political state in the city.
(c) Information about it's physical characteristics and history.
(d) Information about the financial situation.

2. What is the name of the time when Indian tribes had their own system of authority?
(a) The time of the Aztecs.
(b) Before the conquest.
(c) Pre-columbian era.
(d) The time of old.

3. What is the only way that Jalcocotbn is reachable?
(a) By boat.
(b) By an underground cave system.
(c) By steep, rocky trails.
(d) By a narrow canyon trail.

4. What is it that Dosa Eduvijes put in her mouth as she tells her stories?
(a) A bottle of liquor.
(b) A cigarette.
(c) A straw of hay.
(d) A pepper.

5. Ernie comments that the world is made of two types of men, those on horseback and what other type of men?
(a) Those with money.
(b) Those in government.
(c) Those on their knees.
(d) Those on foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of animal is the family pet while Ernie lives in Jalco?

2. Who shoots at Josy as he leaves his job building stone markers?

3. What do Don Porfirio's mounted police tell the Lopez family they are to do for the troops coming to the village?

4. What is the name of the stream that runs through Jalcocotbn?

5. What similarity can be seen between Coronel and Don Catarino?

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