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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does John Grady travel after leaving his house for the last time in the book?
(a) Drives a truck.
(b) Drives a motorcycle.
(c) Hitchhiking.
(d) Rides his horse.

2. What food does Billy split with a stranger in the Epilogue?
(a) Grapes.
(b) Chips.
(c) Saltine crackers.
(d) An orange.

3. What date does John Grady tell Mac he wants to get married?
(a) September 8.
(b) April 29.
(c) March 5.
(d) February 17.

4. How are the men able to get their horses to go to the top of the mesa in Chapter 3?
(a) They kicked the horses.
(b) Tied jackets over the horse's eyes.
(c) The horses were all used to going up the mesa.
(d) They had well trained horses.

5. What does John Grady do after identifying Magdalena's dead body?
(a) Eats with his family.
(b) Buys a gun.
(c) Goes to the bank.
(d) Rides his horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mac give John Grady as a wedding gift for Magdalena?

2. Who talks about his short lived marriage with John Grady in Chapter 3?

3. What does Billy teach the children of a family he begins to stay with to do at the very end of the book?

4. Which of the following words would not describe Billy when the book fast-forwards in the Epilogue?

5. Where is the first bad gash John Grady suffers during the knife fight with Eduardo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the dream of a stranger described to Billy in the epilogue?

2. How is John Grady and Eduardo's knife fight described?

3. How is Billy described when he is first seen in 2002?

4. What is the nature of Billy's conversation with a police officer after discovering Magdalena was dead?

5. What does John Grady do after killing Eduardo?

6. How does Billy survive when he travels to New Mexico in the epilogue?

7. How is Billy's work with a family at the end of the book described?

8. Why does the blind man refuse John Grady's request that he be Magdalena's godfather?

9. How is Eduardo killed?

10. How does John Grady discover that Magdalena has died?

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