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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3, The Crying Tree.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Don Juan?
(a) The mayor of the town.
(b) Dona Guadalupe's brother.
(c) The teacher.
(d) Colonel Maytorena's boss.

2. Who goes with Don Castro to start a new community?
(a) Victoriano.
(b) Dona Guadalupe.
(c) His two brothers.
(d) His wife and three children.

3. 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 is trying to get enough gold to make a ring.
(d) He wants to be a successful businessman.

4. Who is the mayor's eldest daughter?
(a) Lydia.
(b) Olivia.
(c) Rose-Mary.
(d) Maria.

5. Why does Socorro throw out all of her husband's clothing?
(a) She is going to buy him all new clothes for his return.
(b) She needs to move and cannot take them all with her.
(c) She is angry and wants to say good-bye to him forever.
(d) She recognizes that she should donate them to others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the mine been named?

2. Why does Juan Salvador distract the foreman of a farm as his family is passing it?

3. What is the name of the young man who is hired by Don Benito to help move rocks and earth from the gold find?

4. On the day they are scheduled to blast the location where they located their gold, what does Victoriano forget and have to go back home to retrieve?

5. Who does the second owner sell the mine to?

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