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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Father Rentería do in order to help himself go to sleep?
(a) He drinks hot milk.
(b) He counts sheep.
(c) He recites the names of the saints.
(d) He takes a warm bath.

2. What promise does Dolorita and Eduviges make to each other?
(a) To pay off each others' debt.
(b) To die together.
(c) To write each other every day.
(d) To never marry.

3. What does don Pedro's father initially want to do with his son?
(a) Send him to the seminary.
(b) Make him in charge of Media Luna.
(c) Give him up for adoption.
(d) Kill him.

4. What does the burro driver tell Juan happens to don Pedro?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) He died years ago.
(c) He is "living bile".
(d) He owns the Media Luna ranch.

5. What does Miguel tell Ana about why he comes to her window?
(a) He wants to borrow money.
(b) He asks if her can live with her family.
(c) He says he has come to ask forgiveness.
(d) He wants to marry her.

6. Where is Juan buried?
(a) At the Media Luna ranch.
(b) With Dorotea.
(c) With his mother.
(d) In an unmarked grave in the desert.

7. How does Father Rentería suggest that María Dyada try to get redemption for her sister?
(a) Join the revolution.
(b) Become a nun.
(c) Marry him.
(d) Pay for Gregorian masses.

8. Who does Chona's lover say he runs off with instead?
(a) Susana.
(b) Juliana.
(c) Dolores.
(d) Felicitas.

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

10. What does the old woman get from under the bed while Donis and his sister are out of the house?
(a) Some love letters.
(b) Some sheets.
(c) A box of money.
(d) A dress.

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

12. What astronomical event occurs on the evening of Miguel's funeral?
(a) A comet passes by.
(b) An eclipse.
(c) A meteor shower.
(d) A full moon.

13. How long have the man and woman been in Comala?
(a) They are born there.
(b) Two months.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Six years.

14. Where is Juan the day before he gets to Comala?
(a) The ocean.
(b) Sayula.
(c) His mother's house.
(d) Contla.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last thing that Juan sees before he dies?

2. Where does Dolores' sister live?

3. What does the woman think Juan does?

4. What do Juan and the burro driver have in common?

5. What is Osorio's other talent?

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