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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where is Tenorio hiding waiting to ambush Narcisco?
(a) Narcisco's garden.
(b) Rosie's house.
(c) School playground.
(d) Town bar.

4. Who says, "the blood of a man thickens with the desire for revenge."?
(a) Samuel.
(b) Andrew.
(c) Narcisco.
(d) Tenorio.

5. Who says "where there is no acknowledgment of guilt and penance done for wrong, there can be no forgiveness?"
(a) Gabriel.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Ultima.
(d) Maria.

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

7. What happens to Ultima in Antonio's dream in Chapter 13?
(a) She flies away with the owl.
(b) She leaves for the llano.
(c) She dies.
(d) She turns into a carp.

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

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

10. What did Father Byrnes do to Bones?
(a) Made him kneel on the splintered pew.
(b) Slapped his palms with a flatboard.
(c) Made him clean the rectory.
(d) Mde him stand with his arms outspread.

11. What are the school children told to do with the Host?
(a) Blow bubbles.
(b) Chew it like gum.
(c) Swallow it immediately.
(d) Swallow in one gulp.

12. Who drives to Guadalupe to warn Ultima that Tenorio was coming to get her?
(a) Lucas.
(b) Juan.
(c) Antonio.
(d) Pedro.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does a state policeman bring Eugene and Leon home?

2. Why does Antonio believe God comes in cycles?

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

4. What does Narcisco warn the Marez family?

5. What does Antonio see when he looked at the northern blue skies?

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