4. What does the mayordomo say in a telegraph to Señor Muñez?
(a) About the bumper crop this year.
(b) About a severe drought.
(c) About Chúcaro.
(d) About a new fire raging west of the ranch.

5. What happens when Armando prepares to throw a second lasso?
(a) He throws up from eating so much.
(b) Chúcaro jumps the fence.
(c) It starts to rain.
(d) He gets a sudden headache.

6. What happens when they reconvene and Armando throws again?
(a) He misses Chúcaro by a long way.
(b) He lassos a pig that has wandered in.
(c) He slips and falls in the mud.
(d) He lassos Chúcaro perfectly.

7. What destroys much of Señor Muñez's family fortune?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Bad investments.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Locusts.

8. What does Juan want to avoid doing until after the match?
(a) Meeting Chúcaro.
(b) Getting ready for the dance.
(c) Meeting Señor Muñez.
(d) Meeting Pedro.

9. What does the Vaquero tell the mayordomo about Chúcaro?
(a) That Chúcaro is on loan from another ranch.
(b) That Juan owns Chúcaro.
(c) That Chúcaro is wild and cannot be ridden.
(d) That Pedro owns Chúcaro.

10. How does Juan think the weather will change?
(a) It might rain.
(b) It might get unseasonably hot.
(c) It might clear up.
(d) He does not think it will change.

11. What does the narrator say there is no such thing as a typical one?
(a) Patrón.
(b) Lasso contest.
(c) Riding race.
(d) Bull branding.

12. What does Armando claim about the ranch?
(a) That the law says Armando has the right to kill Chúcaro.
(b) That he and his father already own everything there.
(c) Nothing.
(d) That some day the ranch will be his and Juan had best be careful.

13. What does Mr. Pizetti note?
(a) The law may say that the mayordomo can fire Juan.
(b) The law may force Juan to give up Pedro.
(c) The law will probably rule for Pedro.
(d) The law will probably rule that the mayordomo has legal right to Chúcaro.

14. What does the Vaquero report about Chúcaro?
(a) The mayordomo has taken Chúcaro.
(b) Chúcaro has escaped.
(c) The patrón wants Chúcaro put down because the horse is dangerous.
(d) The mayordomo has seen the horse.

15. What does Armando do to the mayordomo when they arrive at the estancia?
(a) Shakes hands with a buzzer in his hand.
(b) Snubs him.
(c) Shoots water on the man's clothes.
(d) Tells the mayordomo to go get him his horse.