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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 Espirito offered for the golden rocks in the springs?
(a) Ten percent of the gold.
(b) All the clothes and food his people could need.
(c) A large ranch of his own.
(d) One million dollars.

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

3. Who does the second owner sell the mine to?
(a) The Mexican Federales.
(b) Espirito's grandchildren.
(c) A British oil company.
(d) A large American mining company.

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

5. What does Ojos Puros claim is the cause of Don Victor's fever?
(a) The gold.
(b) Stress.
(c) Grief.
(d) Lack of food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Juan use to bundle up the firewood he has collected?

2. When the Gomez family arrives in California, what do they learn about their daughter Sophia?

3. What is Don Victor's job when he meets Guadalupe?

4. How is Luisa's neighborhood described?

5. Where does Guadalupe work when her husband leaves her?

(see the answer key)

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