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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Don Tiburcio's dying request to his wife?
(a) He asks her to burn down their house and leave.
(b) He asks her to bury him next to his mother.
(c) He asks her to clean the fireplace and then leave.
(d) He asks her to make sure she never remarries.

2. Why are the train passengers put off the train and forced to camp while the train leaves?
(a) Because the train driver is evil and has decided to swindle the passengers.
(b) Because these passengers do not have enough money to continue.
(c) Because the train is needed for the war effort.
(d) Because the train cannot actually enter the U.S.

3. Who misses the train to America with Juan?
(a) Inocenta.
(b) Eduardo.
(c) Luisa.
(d) No one, he is all alone.

4. What year does the Mexican Revolution start?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1908.

5. 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?
(a) The flint to start off the dynamite.
(b) The dynamite.
(c) The map to the exact location where the gold is.
(d) The lunches for the men.

6. What is the name of the town midwife?
(a) Angelina.
(b) Maria.
(c) Marguarita.
(d) Elena.

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

8. Which of Dona Guadalupe's daughters does Don Tiburcio seek to marry?
(a) Sophia.
(b) Carlota.
(c) Lupe.
(d) Luisa.

9. Where does Lupe go to school?
(a) The small school in the next town.
(b) At her neighbors, Tia Juanita's.
(c) The American compound near the mine.
(d) At the Universidad.

10. Who is having trouble keeping the secret that they have discovered gold?
(a) Don Victor.
(b) Victoriano and Don Benito.
(c) Dona Guadalupe.
(d) Lupe and Victoriano.

11. What one item of Colonel Maytorena's clothing does Lupe rescue from being discarded?
(a) His black gloves.
(b) His gray coat.
(c) His white shirt.
(d) His blue hat.

12. What does Dona Guadalupe want to do with her share of the gold that they have found?
(a) She wants to find a nice house in Mexico City.
(b) She wants to move her family to the United States.
(c) She wants to buy a ranchero in the country.
(d) She wants to make sure her children go to college.

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

14. 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 lets another soldier kill her.
(c) He takes her as his own.
(d) He throws her into prison.

15. What is the one condition that Espirito and his people put on the spring when they sell it?
(a) They are only allowed to stay for six months out of the year.
(b) They must not impose on the community.
(c) They must pay taxes to the community to live there.
(d) No digging allowed, they can only take rocks at the surface.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many babies does Socorro give birth to?

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

3. What town does Don Victor tell Guadalupe about and convince her to go with him?

4. What does the midwife say about the pain tolerance of men?

5. What job does Dona Margarita get so that she can feed her family?

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