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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antonio accuse Pedro of doing to Ultima?
(a) Allow Tenorio to pass judgment.
(b) Allow his sisters a ride in his truck.
(c) Allow Maria to marry Gabriel.
(d) Allow Narcisco to leave El Puerto.

2. 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.

3. What is the test to determine if someone was a witch?
(a) Hang a whiskey bottle upside down from a tree and walk underneath.
(b) Walk through a door marked by blessed needles in the form of a cross.
(c) Burn incense for 72 hours.
(d) Catch Ultima's owl.

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

5. What does Narcisco warn the Marez family?
(a) Montano, Manuelito and Cruz Sedilla are coming to steal their horses.
(b) The moon will not journey from east to west.
(c) Tenorio is blaming Ultima for his daughter's death.
(d) The town is sinking into the river.

6. Why is Tenorio rageful and threatening to harm Ultima?
(a) He's having vision problems.
(b) His second daughter is dying.
(c) His dead daughter was not properly buried.
(d) He does not have a job.

7. What do the children want Antonio to?
(a) Force him to hear other's confession.
(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 kiss the small crucifix.

8. When does Antonio make his First Communion?
(a) Easter Monday.
(b) Good Friday.
(c) Easter Sunday.
(d) Holy Saturday.

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

10. Why does Antonio believe God comes in cycles?
(a) God moves like the moon's orbit.
(b) God comes and goes at various times in life.
(c) God moves like the ocean waves.
(d) God can change the seasons.

11. What does Antonio kiss?
(a) Rosary beads.
(b) Jesus' feet on a small crucifix.
(c) Confessional wood.
(d) Father Byrnes hands.

12. What does the priest do when Tenorio arrives with his daughter's funeral procession?
(a) Offer a holy scapular.
(b) Bar the entrance.
(c) Unlock the campo santo.
(d) Make a sign of the cross.

13. What does Antonio do every Saturday since Easter?
(a) Seek the golden carp.
(b) Receive communion.
(c) Pray the rosary.
(d) Go to confession.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Father Byrnes do to Bones?

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

3. What do the Luna brothers ask Antonio's parents before they leave El Puerto?

4. Where os Christ on Easter Sunday?

5. Why does Tenorio believe Ultima had cursed his dead daughter?

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