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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. Why are the people in the village leaving to find work in other areas?
(a) Because the Americans shut down the mine.
(b) Because the war is coming to their village.
(c) Because a new, larger mine is opening up in another city.
(d) Because they are sick of working for the Americans.

2. Why are Lupe and her sisters refused pay when they are working in the fields?
(a) Because they damage the produce as they pick them.
(b) Because they argue with the foreman too much.
(c) Because they are poor workers.
(d) Because they are women.

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

4. Victoriano is badly beaten after trying to defend what from the bandits?
(a) His sister.
(b) The gold his family has collected.
(c) A food he has just hunted.
(d) His dog.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which powerful person is killed by Victoriano?

2. What weapon does Dona Guadalupe give to her son after she frees him from being hanged?

3. Who is eloping with Maria?

4. Because of their efforts in starting a strike, what happens to Lupe and her sisters as employees?

5. Who has convinced Maria that she should elope?

(see the answer key)

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