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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Section 6 (to page 45).

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 it's physical characteristics and history.
(c) Information about the political state in the city.
(d) Information about the financial situation.

2. What does the Weeping Woman's presence foreshadow?
(a) Death.
(b) The birth of a child.
(c) Volcanic erruptions.
(d) Marriage.

3. How is the history of Jalco kept?
(a) Word of mouth.
(b) Books.
(c) Heiroglyphics.
(d) Geneologies.

4. What kind of stories does the narrator say he tells his family?
(a) The story of the freedom of Central America.
(b) Proverbs that he learned from his mother.
(c) Tales of Mexican mythology.
(d) Anecdotes about the village where he was born.

5. What is the hanging platform called that Ernie slept on as a child?
(a) A hammock.
(b) A cama.
(c) A mesa.
(d) A tapanco.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ernie receive his education, for the most part?

2. What is it that provides an escape route for Jalcocotbn should an attack occur?

3. What is the central theme of Cleofas' version of Jalco's history?

4. Who comments that buzzards are "chickens"?

5. Who collects unbaptized children and carries them off?

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