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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5, A Time of Miracles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Don Tiburcio's dying request to his wife?
(a) He asks her to clean the fireplace and then leave.
(b) He asks her to make sure she never remarries.
(c) He asks her to burn down their house and leave.
(d) He asks her to bury him next to his mother.

2. Is the strike successful?
(a) No, it was not successful.
(b) Yes, women got paid equal to men.
(c) Yes, but women got paid less than men.
(d) The story does not mention the outcome of the strike.

3. Why does La Liebre decide to have Victoriano hanged in the town square?
(a) He thinks the ore he has is more valuable than it is.
(b) He is angry because the boy talked back to him in a crowd.
(c) Just because.
(d) He and Victoriano are fighting over the same woman.

4. Why is Victoriano looking through the discarded ore for gold?
(a) He wants to be a successful businessman.
(b) He is trying to get enough gold to make a ring.
(c) His mother needs help paying the bills.
(d) He is deliberately trying to anger the Americans.

5. Which of his daughters accompanies Don Victor back to the lowlands?
(a) Sophia.
(b) Socorro.
(c) Carlota.
(d) Lupe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the people in the village leaving to find work in other areas?

2. Why do the Mexican workers work under such horrible conditions?

3. Which of Lupe's sisters organizes a strike so that women can get paid for the work they do?

4. Who has convinced Maria that she should elope?

5. Towards the end of Chapter 7, what do the soldiers do in response to the angry crowds they see in the village?

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