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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pedro Páramo, pages 61 - 75.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Juan's tossing and turning remind the woman of?
(a) The way her brother sleeps.
(b) Her mother's illness.
(c) A sick animal.
(d) The first time the man sleeps with her.

2. What happens to Miguel's mother?
(a) She runs off with another man.
(b) She dies in childbirth.
(c) She is killed by revolutionaries.
(d) She becomes a nun.

3. Why does Dolores try to delay her wedding to Pedro?
(a) She is afraid to lose her virginity.
(b) She wants to wait until her sister can attend the wedding.
(c) She has a date with someone else.
(d) She is menstruating.

4. What does the boy's mother say happens to him if he stays too long in the privy?
(a) He does not get dinner.
(b) He disappears.
(c) The storm carries him away.
(d) A snake bites him.

5. How does Damiana originally know Juan?
(a) She is his real mother.
(b) She takes care of him when he is a baby.
(c) She is his girlfriend.
(d) She is his mother's best friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy's grandmother want him to do for her?

2. How many children are in Damiana's family?

3. What month is it when Juan dies?

4. What does don Pedro initially think that happens to his son?

5. When Father Rentería returns from his walk, who does he learn is waiting for him?

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