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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a casita?
(a) A large fish that provides sustenance to many of the people of Argentina.
(b) A small, domesticated ferret-like creature.
(c) Another name for Juan's hut.
(d) A small, domesticated bird.

2. How is Gitana described?
(a) Gentle.
(b) Temperamental and cunning.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Dangerous.

3. Where does Juan say Chúcaro will stay?
(a) In the stable.
(b) In a corral.
(c) In his home.
(d) On the Pampas.

4. From where does Pedro listen to Juan?
(a) Lying next to Chúcaro.
(b) On Chúcaro's back.
(c) Sitting on Juan's porch steps.
(d) Lying in the hayloft.

5. What is one instance when the weather around Pedro's home is sad?
(a) When it rains so long, homes are flooded.
(b) When it's so cold, it's difficult to be outside.
(c) When it's so dry there is dust on everything.
(d) When hail destroys the crops.

6. What animal does Pedro see at the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) A coyote.
(b) A horse.
(c) A llama.
(d) A donkey.

7. What do some people think Juan has captured?
(a) The jack rabbit in the cage in his yard.
(b) The dove that sits on his porch railing.
(c) The man in the wanted poster.
(d) The goshawk that sits on his porch railing.

8. How does the Pampas show color?
(a) Its blooming flowers.
(b) The various greens of its grasses.
(c) The tiny birds that are everywhere.
(d) The different-colored beetles.

9. What does scratching signify to Chúcaro?
(a) A challenge.
(b) Who is dominant.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Friendship.

10. Who has a bronze, ruddy face?
(a) Carlos.
(b) Pedro.
(c) Juan.
(d) The mayordomo.

11. Who often gets together to eat and talk?
(a) Pedro and his many relatives.
(b) The entire village.
(c) Gauchos.
(d) Juan and his seven brothers.

12. What is another thing the mayordomo does?
(a) Barters for new livestock.
(b) Works in the fields to train others.
(c) Goes to meetings in Buenos Aires.
(d) Decides when to sell land.

13. How old is Pedro when his mother dies?
(a) 1.
(b) She is still alive.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

14. What is Juan's singing voice like?
(a) Off-tune.
(b) Juan never sings.
(c) Lovely.
(d) Scratchy.

15. To whom does the Pampas "sing"?
(a) No one.
(b) Those who are close to it.
(c) The animals who live there.
(d) The scientists who come to study it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a poster on Juan's wall depict?

2. How old is Pedro?

3. What color are the spots on the animal Pedro sees?

4. Where do Juan and Pedro take Chúcaro in Chapter 4?

5. How many farms are grouped into a large estate?

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