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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 creature is present in the bottom of every mescal bottle?
(a) A beetle.
(b) A butterfly.
(c) A worm.
(d) A cricket.
2. What does the Colonel say is the only frontier left for gringos?
(a) The North.
(b) The West.
(c) The South.
(d) The East.
3. What does Mr. Delaney do for a living?
(a) He is a cigarette salesman.
(b) He is an optometrist.
(c) He is a lawyer.
(d) He is a lobbyist.
4. How often did the Miranda family come to visit the hacienda during a typical year?
(a) More than ten times.
(b) Four or five times.
(c) Once or twice.
(d) Never.
5. What type of church does Harriet attend weekly?
(a) Baptist.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Methodist.
(d) Episcopalian.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many days did the old gringo wander about the desert before finding the guerrillas?
2. How did La Luna get her name?
3. What art form did Harriet's family collect from uninterested Europeans?
4. What relationship did Harriet and Tomás have in Mexico?
5. Why does the old gringo think that Harriet was hired?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Arroyo's father actually die?
2. How does the general respond to the coin the old gringo has just shot?
3. Why does La Garduña frantically wake Harriet from her siesta?
4. How do the guerrilla soldiers react when they first see the old gringo cross the border into their territory?
5. What does Harriet decide to do with the old gringo's body, and how does she reach this decision?
6. Who is Mr. Delaney?
7. What is the nature of the conversation which transpires between the old gringo and the man who is selling him his horse?
8. Why is the old gringo worried about his interactions with Harriet when he first meets her?
9. What proclamation does Inocencio Mansalvo make at the border of Mexico and America?
10. What memories does Arroyo have when he is forcing Harriet to dance with him in the ballroom?
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