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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 pp. 42 - 85.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tragic thing happens to Chalito, the skinniest of the boys, who washed cars on Loreto's street?
(a) He becomes a painter and poet.
(b) He later becomes a priest.
(c) He makes more money than the rest of the boys.
(d) He gets a cough from being soaked and dies.

2. How did the man whom Loreto met on his way to church become wealthy?
(a) He was a corrupt politician who pimped out his wife for power.
(b) He owned a large farm.
(c) He owned a fancy hotel.
(d) He invested his money in the stock market.

3. One of the two men walking across the desert wants to give up but the other persuades him to continue by telling him what?
(a) That's it's cowardly to give up.
(b) That his father is dying and his wife and children are starving.
(c) That he won't be able to make the journey alone.
(d) That it's too late to turn back.

4. What was the wealthy man's former occupation?
(a) He was a soldier.
(b) He was a lawyer.
(c) He was a barber.
(d) He was a cotton-picker.

5. What does one of the travelers, Pedrito Sotolin, do?
(a) He prays.
(b) He tries to start a fight with the others.
(c) He curses the day he was born.
(d) He sits down and writes a long letter to his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What promises does the one man tempt the other with to keep him walking?

2. What unusual physical feature did Papa's grandmother have?

3. What military rank did Chayo Cuamea have?

4. How many men seeking work in the U.S. are rounded up in Tucson and put in lockup?

5. Whay did they call Lencho's little son Buzz Saw?

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