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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Loreto earn money?
(a) He sells tourist items.
(b) He sells vegetables at the side of the road.
(c) He is a panhandler.
(d) He washes cars.

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

4. What unusual physical feature did Papa's grandmother have?
(a) A very long nose.
(b) Gorgeous, long , black, shiny hair.
(c) A large tattoo of an alligator.
(d) A hairy chest.

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

6. Dosa de Cocuch has what bad habit?
(a) She chews gum.
(b) She takes drugs.
(c) She chews tobacco.
(d) She's a chain smoker.

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

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

9. After a brawl what does Lencho use to wrap what he bought at the supermarket which had been scattered around the bar?
(a) A towel he finds in the bar.
(b) His shirt.
(c) Brown paper.
(d) Nothing.

10. How much money does Loreto finally make from foreign tourists?
(a) One dollar.
(b) Two dollars.
(c) Fifty cents.
(d) Three dollars.

11. What kind of weather was Loreto hoping for in the beginning of the book?
(a) A cool, breezy day.
(b) A rain storm with lightning and thunder.
(c) A sunny, warm day.
(d) A cloudy day.

12. What does Tony Baba's mother pay to the writers?
(a) Four dollars and fifty cents a day plus one dozen hot dogs.
(b) Five dollars a day plus 10 chili dogs.
(c) Four dollars a day plus a dozen hot dogs.
(d) Five dollars a day plus 2 loaves of French bread.

13. Who is Chuco?
(a) The owner of a modest restaurant.
(b) A champion cotton-picker who gets in a fight in a brothel.
(c) Loreto's long, lost brother.
(d) A chicano youth who gets caught up in the revolultion.

14. What was Tony Baba's wife like?
(a) She was frigid and adored her cat.
(b) She was warm and friendly to everyone.
(c) She was an intellectual.
(d) She was a homebody who loved cleaning her house.

15. What is a short description of Lorenzo?
(a) A young man seeking wealth and adventure across the border.
(b) A poet at heart who falls in love with the desert and moon.
(c) An old, ragged Yaqui Indian with no family.
(d) A Yaqui Indian soldier eager to fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Loreto drops one of his coins?

2. What does Senora Davalos de Cocuch give to Chalito's mother?

3. Why is Ramagacha going to the U.S.?

4. Which worker does Tony Baba's grandmother intensely dislike and why?

5. At what time does Chalito utter his last word?

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