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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pedro Páramo, pages 37 - 47.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Damiana say she hears "night after night"?
(a) A fiesta at Media Luna.
(b) Horses.
(c) Juan's cries.
(d) Her sister and her brother-in-law making love.

2. Who tells Eduviges that Juan is coming to town?
(a) Don Pedro.
(b) His mother.
(c) Abundio.
(d) Dorotea.

3. What does the boy's mother want him to do?
(a) Take care of the horses.
(b) Clean the house.
(c) Help his grandmother shell corn.
(d) Find a missing book.

4. What happens to Juan's mother?
(a) She dies the day before he gets to Comala.
(b) She dies a week before he gets to Comala.
(c) She is kidnapped.
(d) She dies the day before he gets to Comala.

5. What is the official charge against Toribio Aldrete?
(a) Murder.
(b) Perjury.
(c) Falsifying boundaries.
(d) Libelous comments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Inocencio's job at the Media Luna ranch?

2. Why does Dolores try to delay her wedding to Pedro?

3. What does don Pedro's father initially want to do with his son?

4. What is it that Fulgor wants to remember to tell don Pedro about his upcoming marriage?

5. How does Abundio go deaf?

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