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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Juan awakes, where does the woman say that Donis goes?
(a) To find a lost calf.
(b) To go to a fiesta.
(c) To go to mass.
(d) To kill himself.

4. Who tells Juan where to stay while in Comala?
(a) Doña Eduviges.
(b) Dorotea.
(c) Abundio.
(d) His mother.

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

6. What does Juan carry in his pocket to remind him of his mother?
(a) A letter from her.
(b) A photograph of her.
(c) A scrap of her rebozo.
(d) A pressed flower.

7. How many children are in Damiana's family?
(a) Two.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Nine.
(d) Twenty.

8. Where does Juan tell the woman that he is headed?
(a) Sayula.
(b) Los Confines.
(c) Media Luna.
(d) Contla.

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

10. Whose wedding dress is Dolores invited to wear?
(a) Eduviges'.
(b) Damiana's.
(c) Her sister's.
(d) Don Pedro's mother's.

11. What is the name of the shopkeeper?
(a) Justina Díaz.
(b) Doña Inés Villalpando.
(c) Eduviges Dyada.
(d) Damiana Cisneros.

12. Who sleeps next to Pedro on his wedding night?
(a) Dolores.
(b) Susana.
(c) Eduviges.
(d) Damiana Cisneros.

13. According to Damiana, what happens in the room Juan is staying in at Eduviges' house?
(a) It is infested with spiders.
(b) He is born there.
(c) His father dies there.
(d) Someone is hanged there.

14. When Fulgor Sedano visits don Pedro for the second time, how many black bows are hanging on his door?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

15. Why does Eduviges feel she must take care of Juan?
(a) Because he should have been her son.
(b) Because she was friends with his mother.
(c) Because his mother told him he would be coming.
(d) All answers are correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Miguel's spirit been seen in the first days after his death?

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

3. What is Galileo's wife's name?

4. What does the boy's mother want him to buy for her?

5. What is Osorio's other talent?

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