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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. How many men seeking work in the U.S. are rounded up in Tucson and put in lockup?
(a) 200.
(b) 250.
(c) 260.
(d) 150.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. PILGRIMS IN AZTLAN takes during which decade of the 20th century?

2. What does one of the group of travelers die from?

3. What tragic thing happens to Chalito, the skinniest of the boys, who washed cars on Loreto's street?

4. What is Vate afraid of?

5. What does Jes's of Bethlehem do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Kite and tell why the children chase him.

2. Who is Ruperta?

3. How many of the revolution troops are captured and what happens to them?

4. What is Chuco doing when the narrator meets him again ten years later.

5. Who is Ramagacha?

6. Who does Judge Rudolph Smith sentence to a mental institution?

7. Why is Chuco sentenced to four years in jail and who sentences him?

8. Describe Loreto and what he does to make money.

9. A car passes the two exhausted, desperate men. Why doesn't it stop to give them a ride?

10. Describe Kite. ( Ffor instance: what does he look like, do all the time and what was his former occupation?)

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