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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tenorio planning to do to Ultima?
(a) Start a witchhunt.
(b) Steal her magical potions.
(c) Kill her owl.
(d) Kidnap her from the Marez home.

2. What does Antonio see in his nightmares in Chapter 16?
(a) Tenorio shooting Ultima.
(b) Ultima lying in a coffin.
(c) Tenorio's dead daughter.
(d) The owl plucking Tenorio's other eye.

3. Who is ruled by the phases of the moon?
(a) Marez.
(b) Lunas.
(c) Tenorio.
(d) Ultima.

4. What gives a person understanding?
(a) Holy Trinity.
(b) God.
(c) Golden Carp.
(d) Life.

5. Why do old people refuse to let their children speak English?
(a) The slang was too difficult to understand.
(b) They were not educated.
(c) They don't accept the new language.
(d) They couldn't understand what their children were saying.

6. Why does a state policeman bring Eugene and Leon home?
(a) Their car caught fire.
(b) Their bus broke down.
(c) They couldn't walk on the ice.
(d) They fell in a ditch.

7. What happened to Florence's mother?
(a) She drank too much whiskey.
(b) She married another man.
(c) She left town.
(d) She died when he was three.

8. What is the coroner's ruling of Narcisco's death?
(a) Accidential or self-inflicted.
(b) Genocide.
(c) Homicide.
(d) Infanticide.

9. What are the holiest robes?
(a) Narcisco and Lupito's burial shroud.
(b) Ultima's shawl and Antonio's mother's smock.
(c) Virgen's blue robe and the cloth with the face of Christ.
(d) Father Byrnes priest vestments.

10. Who is with Narcisco when he takes his last breath?
(a) Antonio
(b) Andrew
(c) Tenorio
(d) Manuelito

11. What does Ultima's owl do to Tenorio?
(a) Gouges his one eye with its talons.
(b) Plucks the whiskey bottle from his hand.
(c) Rips his beard from his face.
(d) Knocks him off his horse.

12. What do the children want Antonio to?
(a) Force him to kiss the small crucifix.
(b) Force him to be the first in the confessional line.
(c) Force him to attend the Stations of the Cross.
(d) Force him to hear other's confession.

13. Why does Antonio's mother guard Ultima from those looking for her help?
(a) She didn't care for the villagers.
(b) She wanted Ultima to stay close to Antonio.
(c) She was afraid Tenorio would harm her.
(d) She knew Ultima was getting older.

14. What does Antonio do before cutting into a live tree?
(a) He dances around it.
(b) He talks to it.
(c) He hugs it.
(d) He pulls all its leaves.

15. What are mortal sins?
(a) Sins against the church.
(b) Small sins such as lying.
(c) Sins committed to Purgatory.
(d) Grave sins such as murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the boys doing in walled portion of Blue Lake which they were forbidden?

2. Who does Cico and Antonio believe is ready to learn about the golden carp?

3. What starts to fall from the roof outside of Tellez home?

4. What does the priest do when Tenorio arrives with his daughter's funeral procession?

5. What does Antonio tell Tenorio will happen if he harms Ultima?

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