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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pedro offer Gould?
(a) Presidency
(b) A royal title
(c) A military rank
(d) A gold mine

2. Who does Nostromo think cares nothing for him?
(a) The sailors
(b) Decoud
(c) The upper classes
(d) The mining industry

3. What other character does Sotillo turn to for information?
(a) Nostromo
(b) Don Pepe
(c) Don Jose
(d) Hirsch

4. Who does Decoud write to in Paris?
(a) His mother
(b) His wife
(c) His sister
(d) His brother

5. For whom does Nostromo refuse to get a priest?
(a) Mrs. Viola
(b) His mother
(c) Isabel
(d) Don Jose

6. What sound welcomes Pedro Montero to the town?
(a) Church bells
(b) Car horns
(c) Jeers
(d) Drums

7. Which character watches the ship dock?
(a) Decoud
(b) Captain Mitchell
(c) Mrs. Gould
(d) Nostromo

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

9. Who has joined the townspeople in cleaning up the town?
(a) Nostromo
(b) Mr. Gould
(c) Antonia
(d) The chief engineer of the railway

10. Where were the three men taken prisoner?
(a) Giorgio's hotel
(b) The silver mine
(c) Mr. Gould's house
(d) The lighthouse

11. With whom does Decoud tend to the wounded?
(a) Mr. Gould
(b) Mrs. Gould
(c) Pedro
(d) Antonia

12. Who does Decoud beg not to surrender?
(a) The town leaders
(b) Mr. Gould
(c) Ribiera
(d) Montero's army

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

14. What does Montero ask Don Pepe in his letter?
(a) Mr. Gould's location
(b) If he can marry his daughter
(c) If he can stay at his house
(d) Hand over the silver mine

15. For whom does Sotillo send?
(a) Dr. Monygham
(b) Mr. Gould
(c) Antonia
(d) Nostromo

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is ready to surrender?

2. Who do the doctor and the engineer wonder is trustworthy?

3. What does Nostromo say is his one goal in life?

4. What does Gould see in town?

5. Who convinces Sotillo that the silver is buried somewhere?

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