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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Don Victor believe it will take his family to gather enough gold to buy their way to the U.S.?
(a) Two and a half years.
(b) Nine months.
(c) Two months.
(d) About a year.

2. What is the name of Juan Salvador's youngest brother?
(a) Raoul.
(b) Joselito.
(c) Miguelito.
(d) Pablo.

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

4. Victoriano is badly beaten after trying to defend what from the bandits?
(a) A food he has just hunted.
(b) His sister.
(c) His dog.
(d) The gold his family has collected.

5. What does Don Victor tell Lupe that makes her resent him?
(a) He tells her that she should help her mother more.
(b) He tells her she should release her pet deer into the forest.
(c) He tells her that she is not as pretty as Sophia.
(d) He tells her she is too small to help gather the gold.

6. Many years after the new community is settled, how does the revolution affect this small community?
(a) The revolution does not really affect their community.
(b) Their community is raided and their livestock stolen.
(c) Their community becomes a base camp for the Federales.
(d) The community becomes rich because of the revolution.

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

8. Why is Victoriano looking through the discarded ore for gold?
(a) He wants to be a successful businessman.
(b) He is deliberately trying to anger the Americans.
(c) He is trying to get enough gold to make a ring.
(d) His mother needs help paying the bills.

9. Why does Dona Guadalupe and her family crush the gold ore they have discovered into dust?
(a) To make it seem like it came from the river.
(b) Because it is more ore than gold.
(c) To make it seem like they have more.
(d) Because that is what you are supposed to do to gold ore.

10. When Juan is talking to God, who does he say he needs help for?
(a) For his mother.
(b) For himself.
(c) For his father.
(d) For the Mexican people.

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

12. Who has convinced Maria that she should elope?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her lover.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her best friend.

13. What is Espirito searching for in Chapter 1?
(a) Drinkable water.
(b) His sister.
(c) A place to hunt.
(d) Berries.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Don Juan?

2. What has the mine been named?

3. Where is Juan Salvador Villasenor traveling with his family in Chapter 8?

4. What family pet does Dona Margarita have to kill for food?

5. What warning does Dona Guadalupe give to her youngest daughter Lupe early in the story?

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