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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the Marez family members excited to leave for El Puerto?
(a) It was the first time they would see Lucas.
(b) It was Antonio's first trip since meeting the golden carp.
(c) It was the first time their father came with them.
(d) It was the first time Ultima had journeyed with them.

2. What does Ultima tell the men to make to ward off the evil curse?
(a) Juniper branches next to a damp casket.
(b) A juniper platform to put a dead body.
(c) A four posted platform made of cedar to burn.
(d) Yerba de la vivora brush laced with herbs.

3. What sin did God commit for Florence?
(a) He forced him to endure the children's Indian torture.
(b) He allowed his mother to drink and his father to die.
(c) He gave him his sisters.
(d) He took his mother and father away when he needed them.

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

5. Why does Tenorio believe Ultima had cursed his dead daughter?
(a) He finds Ultima's herbs in his daughter's bedroom.
(b) He finds Ultima's stringed bag under his daughter's bed.
(c) His other daughters blame Ultima for her death.
(d) He finds Ultima's owl preparing a nest beside his daughter's bedroom window.

6. What are happy memories for Antonio's father?
(a) Working in the highway department with his sons.
(b) Growing up on the llano.
(c) Planting the juniper tree with his sons.
(d) Building a home with his sons.

7. What lesson do the Trementina daughters learn from the death of their sister?
(a) Never tempt a brujas.
(b) Evil begets evil; good begets good.
(c) No one can overcome a curse by a la curandera.
(d) They had tampered with the fate of a man and experienced the consequences.

8. What does Antonio wonder after Andrew leaves with his brothers for Santa Fe in Chapter 15?
(a) Andrew needed money.
(b) The death of Narcisco influenced Andrew's decision.
(c) Andrew broke up with his girlfriend.
(d) Andrew was fired from his job at Allen's Market.

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

10. Who does Cico and Antonio believe is ready to learn about the golden carp?
(a) Samuel.
(b) Jason.
(c) Horse.
(d) Florence.

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

12. What does a wise man do?
(a) Follow the river's path.
(b) Watch the moon journey from east to west.
(c) Listen to the earth.
(d) Follow the rising sun.

13. What are the boys doing in walled portion of Blue Lake which they were forbidden?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Canoeing
(c) Body surfing.
(d) Diveing.

14. What is a scapular?
(a) A kitchen utensil.
(b) A fish that swims upstream with the golden carp.
(c) A small hoe.
(d) A small pouch with the pciture of the Virgin or St. Joseph.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Antonio have about God?

2. What does Narcisco warn the Marez family?

3. Who is the man who saw la Virgen de Guadalupe?

4. Where will Antonio be spending his upcoming summer.

5. What happens to Ultima in Antonio's dream in Chapter 13?

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