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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What sin did God commit for Florence?
(a) He forced him to endure the children's Indian torture.
(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 gave him his sisters.

3. What does Antonio do when Florence's body was pulled to the shore?
(a) Pray the rosary.
(b) Hear everyone's confession.
(c) Recite an Act of Contrition.
(d) Perform CPR.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do the Luna brothers ask Antonio's parents before they leave El Puerto?
(a) Antonio's mother could stay through winter.
(b) Antonio and Ultima could help their father.
(c) Antonio spend a summer working the land.
(d) Ultima stay to watch over Lucas.

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

11. 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.

12. When is the first day of eternity?
(a) When the owl has plucked every berry from a juniper tree.
(b) When the town gets sucked into the water.
(c) When a bird has moved every grain of sand across the ocean.
(d) When all the brujas are dead.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ultima's owl do to Tenorio?

2. What does a wise man do?

3. What is the coroner's ruling of Narcisco's death?

4. What did Father Byrnes do to Bones?

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

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