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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At every town they entered, the General would do all but:
(a) behead the land owners
(b) rescind loans
(c) institute an eight hour workday
(d) distribute land to the peasants

2. Catalina asks Cruz if he:
(a) wants anything
(b) is feeling better
(c) is in pain
(d) wants to talk

3. Artemio is a candidate for:
(a) the Presidency
(b) he is not involved in politics
(c) the federal congress
(d) the town council

4. What doesn't Cruz include in his assets:
(a) real-estate holdings
(b) race horses
(c) stocks
(d) newspapers

5. Who died in the Perales Prison?
(a) Don Gamaliel Bernal
(b) Padilla
(c) Artemio
(d) Golzalo Bernal

6. At the opening of the book, Artemio Cruz is:
(a) middle-aged
(b) an old man
(c) in his twenties
(d) a young boy

7. The novel opens with:
(a) Mr. Cruz sitting in a cafe
(b) a conversation between Cruz and his daughter
(c) Mr. Cruz regaining consciousness in a hospital
(d) a conversation held in a car

8. What does Cruz do?
(a) verbally complains about he incident
(b) submits a written report
(c) submits his resignation
(d) offers the President his support

9. What does Cruz feel about the affection of Catalina?
(a) he wants her to love him
(b) he wants to express his affection for her
(c) he appreciates it
(d) it is useless

10. Don Gamaliel shares with Artemio his list of:
(a) subversive peasants
(b) subversive guards
(c) creditors
(d) debtors

11. Fuentes' style in the Prologue is to:
(a) mix the past and future terms
(b) use the present tense only
(c) mix the preasent and future tense
(d) use the past tense only

12. The revolutionaries take the injured Cruz to headquarters at:
(a) Tijuana
(b) Mexico City
(c) Hermosillo
(d) Rio Hondo

13. Where was Cruz's unit going?
(a) Mexico City
(b) Sinaloa
(c) Hermosillo
(d) Sonora

14. When Catalina and Teresa ask about the will, Artemio tells them:
(a) qhis dresser drawer
(b) there is no will
(c) the mahogany box where his cigars are
(d) the bottom drawer of his desk

15. Who is not assigned to travel to the North?
(a) Major Gavilan
(b) Lieutenant Aparicia
(c) Lieutenant Cruz
(d) Colonel Jimenez

Short Answer Questions

1. When the revolutionaries charge, Cruz:

2. In June 1924, Artemio and Catalina have been?

3. After shopping for a while, the two ladies stop:

4. Cruz leaves the town:

5. Mr. Cruz asks:

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