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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the name "Malguerida" mean?
(a) "The unloved".
(b) "The chosen one".
(c) "Pure virgin".
(d) "Sinner".

2. What is the desert poetically referred to as?
(a) An ocean of sand.
(b) A blank canvas and a grave.
(c) A kind of heaven.
(d) A land of delights and mysteries.

3. What do the soldiers want to do to Chayo Cuamea?
(a) They want to put him in jail.
(b) They want to kill him in battle.
(c) They want to hang him.
(d) They want to put him in front of a firing squad.

4. Who organizes a strike against Tony Baba's grandmother?
(a) Loreto.
(b) Choro.
(c) Kite.
(d) Tabby.

5. What are two characteristics of Don de Cocuch?
(a) He's kind and jolly.
(b) He's old and weak.
(c) He's coarse and crude.
(d) He's fat and lazy.

6. Who is Moroyoqui?
(a) He was Loreto's nephew.
(b) He was a good friend of Vate's.
(c) Jes's of Bethlehem's younger brother.
(d) He was a little runt who joined them because of his hunger.

7. Who does Loreto meet on their way to church in the beginning of the book?
(a) A large Mexican family.
(b) A poor chicano couple
(c) A well-dressed, wealthy couple.
(d) Two American tourists.

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

9. Where does the narrator run into Chuco ten years later?
(a) in Aztlan, in downtown Los Angeles.
(b) in Nogales where he is selling tourist souvenirs.
(c) in San Diego at a cafe.
(d) in Phoenix at a news .stand.

10. What do they do to Chalito to try to make him well?
(a) They give him cinnamon tea and aspirin and rub his chest with vicks.
(b) They sprinkle holy water on him.
(c) They take him to the doctor.
(d) They feed him home-made chicken soup.

11. What does Lencho buy at the supermarket?
(a) 10 pounds of cut-up chicken.
(b) A week's worth of groceries.
(c) A birthday cake and candy.
(d) Steaks and chops.

12. How many men seeking work in the U.S. are rounded up in Tucson and put in lockup?
(a) 260.
(b) 200.
(c) 250.
(d) 150.

13. How does Tony Baba's grandmother show herself as truly villainous?
(a) She has her workers deported to avoid paying them.
(b) She turns a cold shoulder to a poor pregnant relative.
(c) She curses God.
(d) She verbally abuses her workers.

14. The reader is told the sad story of how a young woman is lured into prostitution by whom?
(a) A woman disguised as a nun.
(b) A starving family.
(c) Two traveling salesmen.
(d) Dona Reginalda and her supposed son.

15. What did the Babas talk about together?
(a) They discussed the Bible.
(b) They complimented each other on their good looks.
(c) They discussed the books they had recently read.
(d) They talked politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the man whom Loreto met on his way to church become wealthy?

2. After he gives up washing cars, what does Loreto do for money?

3. What did the married couple Loreto met on their way to church do all day long?

4. What gives Loreto a guilt complex?

5. Who is Ruperta?

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