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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. 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

2. What does Sotillo want to find out from the doctor?
(a) Government secrets
(b) Where the silver is
(c) Back exercises
(d) Where Decoud is

3. Where is the first place that Nostromo enters?
(a) Giorgio's hotel
(b) Gould's house
(c) The Custom House
(d) The silver mine

4. What does Hirsch think has happened to Nostromo and Decoud?
(a) They were successful.
(b) They have run away.
(c) They were captured.
(d) They have drowned.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sotillo avoid Pedro?

2. Who will lead the troops?

3. With whom does Decoud tend to the wounded?

4. Who does Gould meet to discuss a strategy for protecting the mine?

5. Who is Linda's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the silver changing Nostromo's life?

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

3. How does Nostromo start getting the silver into his possession?

4. In what way does Nostromo show his attitude towards life has changed in Part 3, Chapter 9?

5. What is the only reason the doctor thinks that Nostromo is trustworthy with the silver?

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

7. In what way can Pedro be seen as a weak character?

8. What is Don Pepe's plan to protect the silver mine?

9. Why do you think that Sotillo's takeover of Sulaco is so quick and brutal?

10. What do the town leaders show is their true worry in Part 3, Chapter 2?

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