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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Antonio lives at home with his parents and two sisters. Where are his three brothers?
(a) Working for Benito Campos.
(b) Fighting in the war.
(c) Farming in Guadalupe.
(d) Working in a factory in Las Pasturas.

3. What happens to Antonio the first day of school?
(a) He helps his mother in the kitchen.
(b) He feels sick.
(c) He walks the river with Ultima.
(d) He helps his sisters sort school supplies.

4. Who does Antonio see in his dream in Chapter 2?
(a) He sees Ultima begging for Lupito's mercy.
(b) He sees the Marez brothers chasing wild horses.
(c) He sees his three brothers telling him to stay and become a farmer-priest.
(d) He hears his mother begging Antonio's father to build a castle across the river.

5. Who do Antonio's uncles communicate with?
(a) Prudencio when the apple orchard was ready for harvest.
(b) The growing plants as they walked the fields and orchards.
(c) Maria about Antonio's future as a priest.
(d) Their wives about the growing plants.

Short Answer Questions

1. When will Juan bring Antonio back to El Puerto?

2. What do Antonio and his family see when they pass Rosie's house?

3. Why does the Marez family refer to Ultima as la Grande?

4. What does Antonio wear on his first day of school?

5. What does Antonio's mother do before he leaves for his first day of school?

(see the answer key)

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