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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in the pack that Don Victor brings on his back upon his return to his family?
(a) Gold and money has has earned.
(b) Ribbons, dried meat, and other gifts.
(c) A huge bundle of firewood.
(d) A large dead deer.

2. What job does Dona Margarita get so that she can feed her family?
(a) She is a worker in a small market.
(b) She does not have a job, she begs in the city.
(c) She is a housecleaner.
(d) She gets a job as a seamstress in town.

3. Why are Juan and Epitacio thrown into jail?
(a) Because they did not show up to work.
(b) For stealing and selling copper ore.
(c) Because they stole food for their families.
(d) For underage gambling.

4. When the Gomez family arrives in California, what do they learn about their daughter Sophia?
(a) She is alive and living in California.
(b) She is alive and is in Montana.
(c) She did die at sea.
(d) She made it to California but died soon after.

5. What does Leonides do to the little Indian girl who runs at him from a burning house?
(a) He gives her to an old lady on the outskirts of town.
(b) He throws her into prison.
(c) He takes her as his own.
(d) He lets another soldier kill her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Juan and his sisters find seeds for their dinner while trying to walk to the U.S.?

2. What is Don Tiburcio's dying request to his wife?

3. What does Don Victor tell Lupe that makes her resent him?

4. After some time in California, Juan comes to realize that Mexicans are viewed there as what?

5. What does Archie allow Juan to do at his gambling hall during the Festival of the Stringbeans?

(see the answer key)

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