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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 of the following states was NOT at least partially owned by the family that originally owned the train car General Arroyo is sleeping in?
(a) Tamaulipas.
(b) Chihuahua.
(c) Durango.
(d) Coahuila

2. What does Harriet suspect of Mr. Delaney.
(a) That he is embezzling.
(b) That he is dating someone else on the side.
(c) That he is involved in some shady business deals.
(d) That he is secretly married.

3. Which of the following is NOT a reason the old gringo thinks he looks like an apparition?
(a) His white hair.
(b) His blue eyes.
(c) His wrinkled skin.
(d) His white horse.

4. Where did Harriet complete school?
(a) At a finishing school.
(b) At a public school.
(c) At a private school.
(d) She had a tutor.

5. Which of the following does NOT surprise the old gringo when he arrives in Mexico?
(a) The amount of people on the streets.
(b) The height of the buildings.
(c) The youth of the nation.
(d) The modern cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of Mexican climate did Harriet live?

2. Where does Harriet begin to teach the guerrilla children?

3. Who states that the old gringo is probably a man of honor?

4. Whom does the old gringo hope to meet as he is traveling to Zacatecas?

5. In what interesting room of an old building do Harriet and the old gringo talk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information is contained in the old papers General Arroyo stores in his train car?

2. How is Pancho Villa received by the American Press?

3. Why is the old gringo worried about his interactions with Harriet when he first meets her?

4. How does the old gringo find out General Arroyo's secret?

5. What do the Mexican soldiers joke about with the old gringo when he is allowed to dine with them?

6. Who is Tomás Arroyo?

7. How has Harriet come to be alone in Mexico?

8. How does the old gringo feel about deceit?

9. Who is General Fierro?

10. What is the nature of the conversation which transpires between the old gringo and the man who is selling him his horse?

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