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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. What does the stranger Billy meets in the Epilogue say he was traveling through in a dream?
(a) The desert.
(b) The forest.
(c) Mountains.
(d) An ocean.

2. Where does Billy go searching for John Grady at after he discovers Magdalena has died?
(a) His mother's house.
(b) Mexico.
(c) His house.
(d) Mac's house.

3. Who tells John Grady that he will not pray for him and Magdalena in Chapter 3?
(a) Pedro.
(b) The blind piano player.
(c) Tiburcio.
(d) Mac.

4. Which year does the book fast-forward to in the Epilogue?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1987.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1990.

5. Who does John Grady first run into after Magdalena doesn't show up at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) Mac.
(b) Billy.
(c) Travis.
(d) Troy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Billy say he first believed the stranger he meets in the Epilogue to be?

3. Who confronts Magdalena about whether or not John Grady knows she is sick in Chapter 3?

4. What state does Billy travel to at the very end of the book?

5. What does John Grady purchase to get married in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are John Grady and Billy able to save the litter of puppies they find trapped on the mesa?

2. How are Billy's actions described when he goes to the White Lake after Magdalena's death?

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

4. How is Eduardo killed?

5. How does John Grady describe Magdalena's escape plan to her?

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

7. What is the nature of the blind man's response to John Grady when he asks him to pray for him?

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

9. What happens when Magdalena gets into the car at the cafe with the person she believes was hired by John Grady?

10. How are John Grady and Billy able to coerce their horses to go to the top of the mesa?

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