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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the main character traits of Loreto?
(a) Vanity.
(b) Pride.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Prejudice.

2. After he gives up washing cars, what does Loreto do for money?
(a) He picks cotton in Texas.
(b) He guards cars at night while their owners visit brothels.
(c) He teaches Spanish to gringo tourists.
(d) He rents temporarily to people who need a temporary home,

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

4. What do an officer and a soldier complain about regarding Chayon and his Yaqui Indians?
(a) That they are too religious.
(b) That they are taking up arms against the government.
(c) That they are dirty and ragged.
(d) That they are uneducated.

5. What was the air like in the first scene of the book?
(a) Dirty, hazy and smoky.
(b) Filled with flying insects.
(c) Clear and bright.
(d) Perfumed by the flower stands in the street.

6. What kind of a man is Vate?
(a) He's a hard-working, practical man.
(b) He's a sad man.
(c) He's an optimistic, happy man.
(d) He's a mystical, almost priest-like man.

7. What does Senora Davalos de Cocuch give to Chalito's mother?
(a) A check for Chalito's coffin.
(b) A gravestone for Chalito.
(c) A sympathy note and flowers.
(d) A fancy funeral for Chalito.

8. What does Monon Lopez do?
(a) He makes comments to pretty women and insults ugly ones.
(b) He sells lottery tickets.
(c) He sells flowers.
(d) He's a panhandler.

9. What about his horse's anatomy bothers the soldier fighting against Chayo's Yaqui Indians?
(a) His tail.
(b) His hooves.
(c) His backbone.
(d) His mane.

10. Don de Cocuch spent a lot of time around what animals?
(a) Horses.
(b) Burros.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Pigs.

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

12. What was the distinguishing factor about the Babas' bathroom?
(a) It was lined with mirrors.
(b) It had a view of the mountains from the window.
(c) It was huge.
(d) It had a large, sunken tub.

13. What is Vate afraid of?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Dying of thirst.
(c) Being abandoned by his friend.
(d) Starvation.

14. Who carries herself with the elegance of a ballerina?
(a) Ruperta.
(b) Chuco's wife.
(c) Loreto's first love.
(d) Tony Baba's wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator go and what work is he seeking?

2. What is the desert poetically referred to as?

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

4. What tongues does Jes's of Bethlehem seem to speak?

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

(see the answer keys)

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