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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 is deliberately trying to anger the Americans.
(b) His mother needs help paying the bills.
(c) He wants to be a successful businessman.
(d) He is trying to get enough gold to make a ring.

2. In Chapter 12, who does the reader learn has fallen in love with Socorro?
(a) Don Victor.
(b) Victoriano.
(c) Emmanuel.
(d) Don Tiburcio.

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

4. Why do the Mexican workers work under such horrible conditions?
(a) They needed work very badly.
(b) They did not have many options for employment.
(c) All are correct.
(d) They were at the mercy of American employers that were having difficulties of their own.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which powerful person is killed by Victoriano?

2. Is the strike successful?

3. Victoriano is badly beaten after trying to defend what from the bandits?

4. Who is eloping with Maria?

5. Which of his daughters accompanies Don Victor back to the lowlands?

(see the answer key)

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