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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Abundio's main job in Comala?
(a) To teach the children.
(b) To settle minor legal disputes.
(c) To take care of the horses.
(d) To bring the mail.

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

3. What does the burro driver tell Juan is "a plague that takes over a person's house the minute they leave"?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Creosote bush.
(c) Moths.
(d) Spiderwebs.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What place are the people who are lost looking for when they stop by the home of the man and the woman?

2. Why can't the boy's family buy a new mill?

3. What is unusual about the man and woman that Juan meets in the ramshackle house?

4. Where does Juan first meet the burro driver?

5. What does the medal around Eduviges' neck say?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Dorotea's first dream?

2. What does the burro driver tell Juan about how don Pedro treats women?

3. What clues are you given as to the boy's family's financial situation?

4. How does what happens to Toribio Aldrete confirm don Pedro's immoral behavior?

5. Why does Fulgor end up working with don Pedro even after don Lucas' death?

6. What does the woman tell Juan about the roads leaving from Comala?

7. Why are the two women that Juan encounters in the street worried?

8. Why does Juan's mother hate having her picture taken?

9. Describe the relationship between don Pedro and Dolores.

10. What does the woman think is wrong with the other woman?

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