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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pedro Páramo, pages 85 - 96.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the women in the boy's house saying a novena?
(a) For financial prosperity.
(b) To improve the boy's health.
(c) To mourn his grandfather's death.
(d) For all the pregnant women.

2. What does Juan think his mother dies of?
(a) A bad fall.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Poisoning.

3. What do the man and the woman remember hearing Juan say?
(a) That he is a traveling musician.
(b) That he is indebted to a local landowner.
(c) That he is a ghost.
(d) Something about his father.

4. Who does don Pedro summon to see him in order to discuss the revolution?
(a) Abundio.
(b) El Tilcuate.
(c) Father Rentería.
(d) Donis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does don Pedro owe the most money to?

2. How long have the man and woman been in Comala?

3. What is Abundio's main job in Comala?

4. Who does Chona's lover say he runs off with instead?

5. What happens to Pedro's father?

(see the answer key)

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