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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 Dorotea say Susana does, "even when she is alive"?
(a) She tells the future.
(b) She gives people blessings.
(c) She talks to herself.
(d) She is unhappy.

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

3. What does Susana ask Justina if she is killed?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Birds.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) Her cat.

4. What does Father Rentería do after Susana's death?
(a) Kills himself.
(b) Joins the revolution.
(c) Goes searching for a wife.
(d) Repents of his sins.

5. What does Susana think is keeping her awake?
(a) Justina's cat.
(b) Bad dreams.
(c) The rain.
(d) Her dead husband's ghost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bartolomé do with don Pedro's letters to Susana?

2. What does don Pedro tell the revolutionaries who come asking for money?

3. What does Susana's mother die of?

4. After learning what has happened to Miguel, what does don Pedro order to be done?

5. What does Susana tell Justina that she believes in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the night Susana learns of Florencio's death.

2. What is the mission of the revolutionaries?

3. What does Father Rentería describe to Susana as she lay dying?

4. Why doesn't don Pedro's lawyer continue holding his papers after he leaves?

5. Why is Fulgor Sedano happy about the rain?

6. What frustrates don Pedro about Susana?

7. Why does Susana reject Father Rentería in her last living moments?

8. How does Fulgor compare Miguel to don Pedro?

9. What does doña Inés want Abundio to tell his dead wife?

10. Why doesn't Abundio's wife get last rites?

(see the answer keys)

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