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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. Which of the following items is not found in pinole?
(a) Lemon Leaves.
(b) Cinnamon.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Corn.

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

3. Who collects unbaptized children and carries them off?
(a) The Devil.
(b) The Wailer.
(c) The Weeping Woman.
(d) El Chupecabra.

4. The use of what words in Part One, Section 4 can be seen as adding to the sense of division between men and women?
(a) Gallo and chicken.
(b) Small and large.
(c) Brave and scared.
(d) Chicken and buzzard.

5. What do Ernie and his mother bring to the mother of a dead boy?
(a) A book of prayers.
(b) A vase.
(c) Flowers.
(d) All answers are right.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the priest expel Josy?

2. What are the corrals in the back of the cottages built out of?

3. What is suggested after the author's stories circulate at a scholarly meeting?

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

5. When is pinole used?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author's language and description of Jalco seem to emphasize?

2. How did Jalco come to exists?

3. Describe Don Cleofas.

4. How is a child of 6 or older raised in Jalco?

5. What is music in Jalco like and used for?

6. How does the author describe his relatives in Jalco?

7. What is the Lopez family's opinion of and experience with the priest?

8. How does Ernie describe the various animals in Part One, Section 3?

9. From Ernie's description of Jalco, what does the daily lifestyle seem like in the village?

10. How does Ernie react when he sees Coronel mating with the hen?

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