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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is mentioned as being yellow?

2. How is Juan often different from the other men in the area?

3. What does Maria tell Luisa?

4. What does Maria guess is going on with Juan?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Are Pedro and his father successful and what does Pedro name the horse?

2. Briefly describe Pedro's father.

3. Who does the estanciero leave the decision-making up to and why?

4. What does the mayordomo know and what does he not yet know?

5. What does the narrator say about the average estanciero and about Señor Muñez in particular?

6. Describe Juan's hut.

7. What does Jose think is the reason Juan wears a red kerchief?

8. What does Pedro do to groom Chúcaro, and how does Chúcaro like it?

9. How does Chúcaro react to being left in the corral by Pedro and what reassures the horse?

10. Where is the Vaquero in Chapter 12, and what does he tell the office secretary?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There is no such thing as an average estanciero/patrón. Some are good and some are bad; some are wise and others foolish. Señor Muñez is a good man, but he had lived an uncomplicated life of luxury long into his adulthood until locusts destroyed much of his family's fortune.

1. Discuss what you think the difference would be in workers who have a good estanciero as opposed to one who has a bad one. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. How do you think Senor Munez's early life of living in luxury affects him as to dealing with the poor workers on his ranches? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss the changes that might happen to a very wealthy person who loses a lot of his/her fortune and how one might cope with such a loss. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think Chucaro is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Chucaro based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Chucaro is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus children's books? Why or why not? Would most adults consider Chucaro a successful novel? What about young teens?

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