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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the poor women and children make money?
(a) Selling souvenir trinkets.
(b) Selling local fruit.
(c) Selling lottery tickets.
(d) Begging.

2. How old was Buzz Saw?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

3. What does Jes's of Bethlehem do?
(a) He sings religious songs.
(b) He heals people and doesn't charge money.
(c) He begs for money very convincingly.
(d) He becomes a priest.

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

5. Who are the two competitors of Chuco, the champion cotton-picker?
(a) Kite and Pedro.
(b) Pelele and a black man.
(c) Loreto and Maria.
(d) Geraldo and Juan.

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

7. How much money does Lencho get from his sons for Buzz Saw's birthday?
(a) 15 dollars.
(b) 9 dollars.
(c) 12 dollars.
(d) 10 dollars.

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

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

10. Why is Ramagacha going to the U.S.?
(a) He's running away from the law.
(b) He's going to find a wife in the U.S.
(c) He's going to earn money for his two grandchildren.
(d) He's going to try to earn money and buy land in the U.S.

11. What does the name, Ramagacha, mean?
(a) Full moon.
(b) Crooked Road.
(c) Bent Branch.
(d) Howling dog.

12. 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) Two American tourists.
(d) A well-dressed, wealthy couple.

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

14. What kind of character did Tony Baba's grandmother's have?
(a) She was a fierce revolutionary.
(b) She was like a loving mother to him.
(c) She was a sweet old-fashioned grandmother.
(d) She was reprehensible and exploited and underpaid her workers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lencho promise his dead son in delirium the afternoon he's buried?

2. What does the name "Malguerida" mean?

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

4. How much money does Loreto finally make from foreign tourists?

5. Who is Kite?

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