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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 does don Pedro offer to El Tilcuate in exchange for his services as a mercenary?
(a) A rancho in Puerta de Piedra.
(b) Media Luna.
(c) Fifty thousand pesos.
(d) Susana.

2. What happens to Miguel's mother?
(a) She is killed by revolutionaries.
(b) She dies in childbirth.
(c) She becomes a nun.
(d) She runs off with another man.

3. What sin does Father Rentería's first penitent of the day confess?
(a) She has lustful thoughts.
(b) She is unfaithful to her husband.
(c) She steals from her sister.
(d) She helps find girls for Miguel.

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

5. How many men does don Pedro offer to assist the revolution?
(a) Sixty.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Three hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month does Susana die?

2. Who comes to comfort Susana after she learns of her father's death?

3. What are the people who come from Apango doing in Comala?

4. What do the women in the town notice about Susana's window?

5. When Father Rentería returns from his walk, who does he learn is waiting for him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does don Pedro want Susana's father to disappear in the mines?

2. What frustrates don Pedro about Susana?

3. How does don Pedro deal with Susana's death?

4. What happens between don Pedro and Damiana when she is a girl?

5. When the reader first hears Susana's narrative, where does she think she is?

6. How does don Pedro deal with the news of Miguel's crimes?

7. How does Fulgor compare Miguel to don Pedro?

8. Why is Fulgor Sedano happy about the rain?

9. Why don't the men of Comala come to the marketplace?

10. Why does Susana think Father Rentería has come to see her?

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