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

2. What gives Loreto a guilt complex?
(a) Not helping the poor, starving Yaqui Indians more.
(b) Not having written a book about he plight of the Yaquis. 'hidden' name=
(c) Never having married or having children.
(d) Chasing off the children and Chalito's death.

3. What is Bethlehem, one of eight Yaqui towns, also called?
(a) Belendo.
(b) Belen.
(c) Beneda.
(d) Loredo.

4. What was Buzz Saw's real name?
(a) Amadito.
(b) Pedro.
(c) Jose.
(d) Jorge.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Tony Baba say he looked like when he viewed himself naked in the mirror?

2. How much money does Lencho get from his sons for Buzz Saw's birthday?

3. Who does Loreto meet on their way to church in the beginning of the book?

4. When Manuel dies, what does his friend make for him?

5. After he gives up washing cars, what does Loreto do for money?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Lorenzo?

3. What does Dosa Candelita do to make money and what does she do to make people pity her?

4. How many children does Cuamea have and how does he raise them?

5. Describe General Cajetes.

6. Who is Frankie Perez and what finally happens to him?

7. What human weaknesses does the city in the novel entice people to engage in?

8. What happens to Chayo Cuamea's eldest son, Chayito, and whose godson is he?

9. Why is Jes's of Bethlehem famous among his people?

10. What does one of the soldiers fighting Chayo complain about and what is the solution his captain offers?

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