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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the old gringo regularly dream of?
(a) Being comfortable.
(b) Death.
(c) Water.
(d) War.

2. What does the Colonel say is the only frontier left for gringos?
(a) The North.
(b) The South.
(c) The East.
(d) The West.

3. When Harriet dreams of Tomás, what thought takes over her mind?
(a) What she has lost.
(b) Where they once lived.
(c) How they met each other.
(d) What could have been between them.

4. Where is the old gringo buried?
(a) In the desert.
(b) In a field of flowers.
(c) In a riverbank.
(d) In the mountains.

5. Why has Harriet come to Mexico?
(a) To teach.
(b) To fight in the war.
(c) To study.
(d) To work on her art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does General Arroyo store in the wooden box in his train car?

2. What does Arroyo feel is keeping him prisoner in his adulthood?

3. How old is the girl that Harriet saves by sucking phlegm out of her throat?

4. What part of battle does the old gringo think will be the most exciting and noble?

5. What does the old gringo fear will happen to Harriet while in Mexico?

(see the answer key)

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