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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five (to page 265),.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ernie feel about sandwiches the first time he eats one?
(a) He is indifferent.
(b) He loves it.
(c) It makes him sick.
(d) He thinks it is distasteful.

2. What does Ernie refer to his mother's sewing machine as?
(a) The Ajax.
(b) The Singer.
(c) Samson.
(d) The monster.

3. What is aguardiente according to Ernie?
(a) Liquor.
(b) Fire.
(c) A bath.
(d) Chili juice.

4. What did the Spaniards do to some of the Indians when they came to Mexico?
(a) Put them into prison.
(b) Caused them to die of sickness.
(c) Forced them into slave labor.
(d) Banished them to Arizona and Texas.

5. What is the name of the forest where the measles patients are quarantined in Part Three?
(a) El Marcho.
(b) El Capitan.
(c) El Nanchi.
(d) El Negro.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Henriqueta where else did Christopher Columbus discover besides the U.S.?

3. How old is the landlady's helper in Tepic?

4. Besides drinking water, what does the stream deliver to the village?

5. What slang term for cowardly is used by Ernie's mother in Part One, Section 4?

(see the answer key)

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