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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which brother suffers from war sickness?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Eugene.
(c) Jason.
(d) Leon.

2. What is special about the homes in El Puerto?
(a) Each has a small flower garden in the front.
(b) Each has an apple orchard.
(c) Each faces the river.
(d) Each has a driveway.

3. What happens to Antonio at the end of the school year?
(a) He learns to write in Spanish.
(b) He passes from first to third grade.
(c) He learns to draw using a chief tablet.
(d) He learns to speak English.

4. What does Eugene tell his father he did not want to do?
(a) Go to school.
(b) Work on the highway crew.
(c) Work on the llano.
(d) Pray the rosary.

5. What is Antonio driven to accomplish at school?
(a) Understanding reading and writing.
(b) Learning to speak English.
(c) Sitting in the front of the classroom.
(d) Playing ball with his friends.

6. What future does Antonio's mother believe an education will provide Antonio?
(a) Becoming a scholarly priest.
(b) Becoming a landowner.
(c) Becoming a government official.
(d) Becoming a businessman.

7. What did Manuelito try to do?
(a) Follow the stray cows to the evil place.
(b) Throw a fireball into the witches' dance.
(c) Warn Lucas to stay away from the evil place .
(d) Clear cottonwood brush from the river bend.

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

9. What is the relationship between the owl and la Virgen de Guadalupe?
(a) Antonio dreams the owl lifts la Virgen de Guadalupe to fly her to heaven.
(b) La Virgen de Guadalupe will destroy the owl.
(c) The owl takes all of la Virgen de Guadalupe babies up to heaven.
(d) The owl represents Ultima's sorcery over la Virgen de Guadalupe.

10. In Chapter 2, who says to Antonio, "Bless me."
(a) Narciso.
(b) Antonio's father.
(c) Lupito.
(d) Chavez.

11. Why are Deborah and Theresa happy that Ultima came to live with them?
(a) Ultima took the girls into town.
(b) Ultima does many of their household chores.
(c) Deborah and Theresa were going to Mass.
(d) Deborah and Theresa were going to catechism class.

12. What does Cico tell Tony never to do in Chapter 11?
(a) Fish for the black bass.
(b) Swim in Blue Lake.
(c) Kill the carp.
(d) Eat from Narciso's garden.

13. What name does Pedro call Antonio?
(a) Antone.
(b) Tony.
(c) Tone.
(d) Tonio.

14. What does Antonio fear about walking along the river in Chapter 3?
(a) Antonio fears Lupito's soul flow listless on the river bottom.
(b) Antonio fears Luptio's killers would attack him.
(c) Antonio feara he would drown if he walked the river's edge.
(d) Antonio feara the river's water would wash the village away.

15. What plant provides the greatest magical power?
(a) Cactus seeds eliminate bad breath.
(b) Yerba del manso heals burns, sores and bleeding.
(c) Oregano reduces high fever.
(d) Osha cures coughs and colds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antonio believe will happen to the men on the bridge?

2. What happened to Pedro's family?

3. Who says, "Every man is delivered of a woman, and must be fulfilled by a woman?"

4. What happens to Antonio the first day of school?

5. What does the owl do when Antonio and Ultima walk together along the river?

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