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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What sign does Chuco imitate?
(a) A sign showing a man drinking tequila.
(b) A sign showing a Mexican crossing the desert.
(c) A sign showing a sleeping Mexican, seemingly a lazy bum.
(d) A sign showing a Mexican dancing on his sombrero.

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

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

5. Who took Loreto's spot on the street?
(a) An old beggar woman
(b) A rival car washer
(c) A prostitute
(d) Several little kids.

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

7. What is Chalito's father's name?
(a) Geraldo Riveras.
(b) Poncho Gonzales.
(c) Lencho Garcia y dell Valle.
(d) Pedro Perez.

8. What two hobbies did Tony Baba's wife have?
(a) Knitting and sewing.
(b) Cooking and baking.
(c) Talking on the phone and collecting money.
(d) Reading and playing the piano.

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

10. What does Lencho promise his dead son in delirium the afternoon he's buried?
(a) That he would buy him a bicycle.
(b) That he would get him a puppy.
(c) That he would take him to Disneyland.
(d) That he would buy him a pony.

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

12. Who talks seductively to Malquerida giving her temporary encouragement?
(a) Valente, the Vaseline Man.
(b) Jose, a young soldier.
(c) Pedro, a traveling salesman.
(d) Geraldo, a street singer.

13. Who is Tony Baba?
(a) A close chicano friend of Mimi's
(b) A childhood friend of Loreto's.
(c) A beneficient monk.
(d) A wealthy gringo who haunts the nightclubs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What military rank did Chayo Cuamea have?

3. What was Tony Baba's wife like?

4. What gives Loreto a guilt complex?

5. How do the poor women and children make money?

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