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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Dona Guadalupe and her children make money?
(a) By selling fruit in town.
(b) By housing the miners.
(c) By selling their portion of the mine.
(d) By feeding the miners.

2. Where does Don Victor go in search of work?
(a) Baja California.
(b) The lowlands.
(c) The seashore.
(d) El Paso.

3. Why is Juan trying to sell firewood?
(a) He wants to be a small business owner.
(b) Because he likes selling firewood.
(c) Because his father used to sell firewood as well.
(d) Because without money the family will starve.

4. Why do the poor Mexicans think highly of Colonel Maytorena?
(a) He stood up to the American miners to make their working conditions better.
(b) Because he is fighting on the side of the revolution.
(c) He is an old war hero and is revered across the valley.
(d) He is here to bring salvation to the small village.

5. Who is Epitacio?
(a) Dona Margarita's brother-in-law.
(b) Luisa's second husband.
(c) Don Castro's uncle.
(d) Juan Salvador's oldest brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the town midwife?

2. Who does Don Benito fall in love with while in town?

3. What does Lupe tell her mother about her feelings toward Salvador?

4. What does Don Victor give to Don Manuel to help him through the wedding ceremony?

5. When the Mexicans demand better working conditions at the rock quarry, what do they get?

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