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

2. What is the significant feature of Marez blood?
(a) Marez blood flows backwards like the River of the Carp.
(b) Marez blood saturates the earth like a thunderstorm.
(c) Marez blood is wild like ocean waves.
(d) Marez blood bleeds blue, the color of la Virgen de Guadalupe.

3. Why does an upset Chavez go to the Marez home?
(a) Chavez wants Antonio's father to kill the sheriff.
(b) Chavez wants to have the Marez brother find his brother's killer.
(c) Antonio's father could help Chavez find the sheriff.
(d) Chavez wants Antonio's father to help him find his brother's killer.

4. What does Antonio believe will happen to the men on the bridge?
(a) He believes because they have murdered another man, they will be doomed to hell.
(b) Antonio believes they will suffer images of Lupito's death.
(c) Antonio believes Lupito's family will murder them.
(d) He believes they will drown in the river's water.

5. What is the relationship between Horse, Abel and Vitamin Kid?
(a) They know Antonio's brothers.
(b) They wear black when attending Mass on Sundays.
(c) They befriend Antonio.
(d) They witness Lupito's murder on the bridge.