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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the significance of the color black the women wore in Chapter 3?
(a) Black represents the day of the week.
(b) Black represents the particular parish one attended Mass.
(c) Black represents the number of children in your family.
(d) Black represents the color of mourning for sons lost in the war.

2. What does the Marez family do at the end of supper?
(a) Harvest alfalfa to feed the rabbits.
(b) Go to Guadalupe to attend Mass.
(c) Read books.
(d) Pray the rosary.

3. Whose voice does Antonio wake to in Chapter 5?
(a) Theresa.
(b) Pedro.
(c) Antonio's mother.
(d) Ultima.

4. Why was Antonio's father bitter?
(a) His dream is to take his sons and move westward to California.
(b) Antonio's father doesn't want Ultima to live with the Marez family.
(c) He wants to go to war with his sons.
(d) He wants to purchase more land for his sons to farm.

5. What is the significant characteristic of Luna blood?
(a) Luna blood runs thick so that plants can take root in the earth.
(b) Luna blood does not clot because no plant could take root.
(c) Luna blood seeps into the earth under the magical sky with a million stars.
(d) Luna blood is quiet so that it can listen to the secrets of the earth necessary for planting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of the chipped plaster on the Virgin's statue?

2. What plant provides the greatest magical power?

3. Why is Tenorio seeking revenge from Ultima in Chapter 14?

4. What will happen to the villagers of Guadalupe if they continue to sin?

5. Why does a state policeman bring Eugene and Leon home?

(see the answer key)

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