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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 is Billy's mother's first name?
(a) Catherine.
(b) Carolyn.
(c) Cassie.
(d) Calinda.

2. Who had packed Boyd's wounds with herbs?
(a) A farm wife.
(b) A midwife.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A bruja.

3. How is Billy's horse wounded in the encounter with some rogue riders?
(a) He is hanged.
(b) He is stabbed in the chest.
(c) He is stoned.
(d) He is shot.

4. What does the doctor accept as payment for his services?
(a) Horse.
(b) Land.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Money.

5. Where does Billy get into an altercation with a man soon after entering Mexico?
(a) A stable.
(b) A cantina.
(c) A cattle drive.
(d) A festival.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl reply when Billy tells her about Boyd's dead twin sister.

2. The young girl tells Billy that her grandmother had been married and widowed __________ times by the age of 20.

3. What does Billy learn when he returns to the home of the doctor?

4. What name does Billy sign on his army induction form?

5. What does the blind man's wife prepare for Billy to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Billy learn about how Boyd died?

2. Describe the dog that tries to share the barn with Billy to escape the rain.

3. What obstacles does Billy have when he tries to enlist in the army?

4. What do Billy and Boyd do when they find some of the horses that were stolen from their ranch?

5. How can Boyd's emerging folk hero status be considered a form of foreshadowing?

6. What does Billy do when he arrives in Deming and who shows Billy kindness?

7. How does the author show what Billy is thinking in this story?

8. Why does the army recruiter seem to take a special interest in Billy?

9. How does Boyd begin to attain the role of a folk hero?

10. What physical defect disqualifies Billy from enlisting in the army?

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