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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 doctor accept as payment for his services?
(a) Money.
(b) Land.
(c) Horse.
(d) Nothing.
2. What is unusual about this morning?
(a) It is the day Billy decides to go home for good.
(b) It is very dark.
(c) It is unseasonably cold.
(d) It is unbearably sunny.
3. What drink does Billy refuse to drink?
(a) Mexican mescal.
(b) Italian wine.
(c) French coffee.
(d) English tea.
4. What does a girl in the young girl's hometown tell Billy?
(a) Boyd and the young girl have moved back east.
(b) Boyd and the young girl married recently.
(c) Boyd left the young girl to return home.
(d) Boyd is buried in San Buenaventura.
5. Why is it impossible for Billy to get into the army even if a doctor passes him through?
(a) An army doctor will find his problem.
(b) He is the oldest surviving male in his family.
(c) He is too young.
(d) He is not a U.S. citizen.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Billy tell the stranger about Boyd?
2. What does Billy do in the days after he buries Boyd?
3. What does the doctor's servant return to the farm where the Parham boys are staying the next day?
4. Who catches up to Billy and Boyd when they are trying to escape with their horses?
5. What does Billy put water into so that the horse can drink?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the dream that Billy has about Boyd?
2. How can Boyd's emerging folk hero status be considered a form of foreshadowing?
3. What does Billy's jealousy of Boyd's relationship with the girl prompt Billy to tell the girl?
4. What does Billy learn about how Boyd died?
5. What sort of life direction does the border guard give Billy?
6. What is Boyd's condition when Billy returns to get him at the Munoz farm?
7. What does the dog symbolize for Billy?
8. With what group does Billy find work and what does he do with his first paycheck?
9. How does Boyd begin to attain the role of a folk hero?
10. How does the author show what Billy is thinking in this story?
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