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

2. Why is Nostromo resentful towards the doctor?
(a) He cares nothing for Hirsch.
(b) He does not ask Nostromo how he is.
(c) He is not concerned about the silver.
(d) He talks down to Nostromo.

3. Who receives a letter from Pedro Montero?
(a) Don Jose
(b) Don Pepe
(c) Mr. Gould
(d) Nostromo

4. Which two characters discuss the future of the town and the mine?
(a) Antonia and Mrs. Gould
(b) The doctor and the engineer
(c) Mr. Gould and the engineer
(d) Mr. Gould and Don Jose

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Pedro's soldiers gives speeches about what topic?

2. What does the doctor say is the only thing that Nostromo has?

3. How does Sotillo avoid Pedro?

4. Who does Don Pepe want to form a military force?

5. Where were the three men taken prisoner?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nostromo's role as a servant help him to take the silver?

2. How does the news of Nostromo and Decoud's supposed deaths prove their peers' real opinion of them?

3. How has the town changed when Mr. Gould arrives back in town?

4. In what does Gould still hold power over Pedro in Part 3, Chapter 7?

5. What does Mrs. Viola tell Nostromo on her deathbed?

6. How is Hirsch killed?

7. In what way do the town leaders show their true colors in Part 3, Chapter 1?

8. Why is Nostromo so angry in Part 3, Chapter 8?

9. Describe Montero's entrance into the town.

10. How does Pedro try to convince Gould to hand over his mine?

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