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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. PILGRIMS IN AZTLAN takes during which decade of the 20th century?
(a) The 70s.
(b) The 80s.
(c) The 60s.
(d) The 50s.

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

3. Where does the narrator go and what work is he seeking?
(a) He goes to Tucson to become a waiter in a Mexican restaurant.
(b) He goes to California to become a panhandler.
(c) He goes back to Mexico to work on a farm.
(d) He goes to Phoenix to work in construction.

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

5. 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.

6. Whay did they call Lencho's little son Buzz Saw?
(a) Because he makes a buzzing sound all the time.
(b) Because he's so active.
(c) Because of his pointy, spaced teeth.
(d) Because he bites everyone.

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

8. When Manuel dies, what does his friend make for him?
(a) A wreath of desert flowers.
(b) A memorial mound of stones.
(c) A cross out of twigs.
(d) A cross out of bones.

9. At what time does Chalito utter his last word?
(a) At four o'clock in the morning after the party.
(b) At three on the dot the morning after the party.
(c) At 2 on the dot the morning after the party.
(d) At five on the dot the morning after the party.

10. What does Loreto buy with the money he makes?
(a) He buys a taco for fifteen cents.
(b) He buys a beer for a quarter.
(c) He buys a buritto for twenty cents.
(d) He buys some ice cream for thirty cents.

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

12. Lorenzo is what kind of a man?
(a) He's a totally logical and analytical man.
(b) He's an angry, argumentative man.
(c) He's a naturally happy and laughing man.
(d) He's a droopy, pessimistic man.

13. Where does Chuco finally go and what work is he seeking?
(a) Chuco goes to Tucson to work as a cook.
(b) Chuco goes back to Mexico to sell lottery tickets.
(c) Chuco goes to pick grapes in California.
(d) Chuco goes to Phoenix to work in construction.

14. Who is Ruperta?
(a) The madwoman who digs in garbage cans for food.
(b) The most beautiful girl in the city's brothel.
(c) Loreto's ancient aunt.
(d) The woman Tony Baba loves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the desert poetically referred to as?

2. Who talks seductively to Malquerida giving her temporary encouragement?

3. What is a parida?

4. What happened to the wealthy man because of the horse he rode?

5. What is Vate afraid of?

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