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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Decoud take the silver?
(a) He needs to pay for the trip back to Paris.
(b) He wants to start a new business.
(c) He is alone on the Islet for weeks.
(d) He wants to buy some weapons.

2. What does Pepe think will happen if they defend the mine?
(a) They will lose everything.
(b) They will be killed.
(c) Surrounding villages will be destroyed.
(d) They will be tortured.

3. What is Pedro disappointed about in the city?
(a) There are no baths.
(b) There is no university.
(c) There are few beautiful women.
(d) The nice houses have been destroyed.

4. Which of the following characters is not being held prisoner by Sotillo?
(a) Don Jose
(b) Dr. Monygham
(c) Giorgio
(d) The chief engineer

5. Who does Don Pepe want to form a military force?
(a) The people who live around the mine
(b) Women and children
(c) The town's leaders
(d) The whole town

6. Why does Nostromo approach the town cautiously?
(a) He hears gun shots.
(b) He wants to surprise everyone.
(c) He is unarmed.
(d) He knows that Montero will want to speak to him.

7. Who is ready to surrender?
(a) Montero
(b) Nostromo
(c) The town leaders
(d) Ribiera

8. Why has Nostromo been out sailing for months?
(a) To think about his life
(b) To find lost treasue
(c) To have a cover story
(d) To look for Decoud

9. On whom does Giselle have a romantic crush? on?
(a) Pepe
(b) Ramirez
(c) Charles Gould
(d) Nostromo

10. For whom are the town leaders waiting?
(a) American troops
(b) Nostromo
(c) General Montero's soldiers
(d) Mr. Gould

11. How do Pepe and Mr. Gould plan to keep the mine out of enemy hands?
(a) Kill Montero
(b) Set traps
(c) Blow it up
(d) Call in American troops

12. Which character returns to town at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Antonia
(b) Decoud
(c) Nostromo
(d) Mr. Gould

13. What does Gould vow to destroy?
(a) Nostromo
(b) His family
(c) The mine
(d) The government

14. What does Nostromo discover about Decoud?
(a) He is back in Paris.
(b) He is hiding in the mountains.
(c) He has disappeared from the islet.
(d) He has been captured.

15. Pedro want his imperial democracy to be in the tradition of ___________.
(a) George Washington
(b) Cromwell
(c) Napoleon
(d) Queen Elizabeth

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sotillo want to find out from Mitchell?

2. What does Nostromo tell Giselle about to convince her to run away with him?

3. Why is Nostromo attracted to Giselle?

4. Who does Nostromo allow Monygham to think is dead?

5. Who is asked to lead the delegation?

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