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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 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) He is deliberately trying to anger the Americans.
(d) His mother needs help paying the bills.

2. Who is eloping with Maria?
(a) Ramon.
(b) Esabel.
(c) Miguel.
(d) Pedro.

3. Because of their efforts in starting a strike, what happens to Lupe and her sisters as employees?
(a) They are promoted above all the other workers.
(b) They lose their jobs but soon find new, better ones.
(c) They are punished by having to work longer shifts.
(d) No one will hire them after the strike.

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

5. Towards the end of Chapter 7, what do the soldiers do in response to the angry crowds they see in the village?
(a) They do nothing and wait for the villagers to calm down.
(b) They attack those who are rising against them.
(c) They taunt the angry crowds.
(d) They flee from the village.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 12, who does the reader learn has fallen in love with Socorro?

4. Why are Lupe and her sisters refused pay when they are working in the fields?

5. Who has convinced Maria that she should elope?

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