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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pedro Páramo, pages 25 - 37.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rogelio asked young Pedro to do for him?
(a) Find him a job.
(b) Watch his little boy.
(c) Build a coffin.
(d) Buy supplies.

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

3. Why can't the boy's family buy a new mill?
(a) They have to pay for the boy's grandfather's funeral.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) They pay too much in tithes to the church.
(d) They don't have any money.

4. Why does Juan Preciado come to Comala?
(a) To bury his mother.
(b) To purchase land.
(c) To find a wife.
(d) To find his father.

5. How does Abundio go deaf?
(a) He is burned.
(b) It is a result of a childhood illness.
(c) He is shot by a revolutionary.
(d) A rocket goes off near his head.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Osorio tell Dolores she must not do on her wedding night?

2. Where is Juan the day before he gets to Comala?

3. What does Juan carry in his pocket to remind him of his mother?

4. What does the burro driver tell Juan happens to don Pedro?

5. Who sleeps next to Pedro on his wedding night?

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