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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Guadalupe work when her husband leaves her?
(a) A vegetable shop in town.
(b) A rich family's house.
(c) A small army hospital.
(d) The local mine.

4. What do the villagers do as a result of the revolution on their small community?
(a) They start heading for the U.S.
(b) They scatter to start another community elsewhere.
(c) They fight back and reclaim their town.
(d) They do nothing.

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

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

7. Why are the people in the village leaving to find work in other areas?
(a) Because a new, larger mine is opening up in another city.
(b) Because they are sick of working for the Americans.
(c) Because the war is coming to their village.
(d) Because the Americans shut down the mine.

8. What has the mine been named?
(a) Plata del Mundo.
(b) El Camino Real.
(c) El Rio Urique.
(d) La Lluvia de Oro.

9. What horrible thing has happened to Juan's sister Emilia?
(a) She was run over by a horse.
(b) She was raped by soldiers.
(c) She lost her voice forever.
(d) She was sick with fever.

10. At the funeral celebration for Don Benito, who announces that they are getting married?
(a) Lydia and Victoriano.
(b) Domingo and Luisa.
(c) Marco and Sophia.
(d) Scott and Carmen.

11. What do Epitacio and Juan see across the Rio Grande?
(a) They see another war on the other side.
(b) Nothing but the same poor people and ugly streets.
(c) The untouched houses of the Americans.
(d) A wild forest.

12. What is Don Victor's job when he meets Guadalupe?
(a) A tanner.
(b) A farmer.
(c) A store owner.
(d) A carpenter.

13. What type of land are Don Castro and his companions looking for to start their new community?
(a) Lowlands.
(b) Land with gold to be mined.
(c) Fertile land.
(d) Coastal land.

14. What family pet does Dona Margarita have to kill for food?
(a) Luisa's goat.
(b) Inocenta's duck.
(c) Juan's burro.
(d) Dona Margarita's dog.

15. Why is La Liebre upset with Dona Guadalupe and her family?
(a) Dona Guadalupe caused his horse to break its leg.
(b) Dona Guadalupe tried to take the gold from his land.
(c) Because they are friends of Colonel Maytorena.
(d) Victoriano tried to marry the woman he loves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Socorro throw out all of her husband's clothing?

3. What is the one condition that Espirito and his people put on the spring when they sell it?

4. Why is Victoriano looking through the discarded ore for gold?

5. Who is the mayor's eldest daughter?

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