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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Socorro throw out all of her husband's clothing?
(a) She is angry and wants to say good-bye to him forever.
(b) She needs to move and cannot take them all with her.
(c) She recognizes that she should donate them to others.
(d) She is going to buy him all new clothes for his return.

3. Why do the poor Mexicans think highly of Colonel Maytorena?
(a) He stood up to the American miners to make their working conditions better.
(b) He is here to bring salvation to the small village.
(c) Because he is fighting on the side of the revolution.
(d) He is an old war hero and is revered across the valley.

4. Where do Dona Guadalupe and her children hide when the army horsemen come through their canyon?
(a) A cave under the large boulder.
(b) On a high cliff in the canyon.
(c) In the mine.
(d) A secret basement in their small house.

5. Why does La Liebre decide to have Victoriano hanged in the town square?
(a) He and Victoriano are fighting over the same woman.
(b) Just because.
(c) He thinks the ore he has is more valuable than it is.
(d) He is angry because the boy talked back to him in a crowd.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is La Liebre upset with Dona Guadalupe and her family?

2. What type of land are Don Castro and his companions looking for to start their new community?

3. What has the mine been named?

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

5. As Juan heads back to Juarez, how does the city look?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lupe do with the Colonel's gray coat that Socorro throws out?

2. What is Don Victor's plan to raise enough money for his family to leave for America? How long will this project take?

3. Why does Socorro leave to go to the lowlands, and what is Victoriano's response?

4. Why is it so hard for Don Benito to keep the secret that they have discovered gold?

5. What does the midwife tell Lupe about pain?

6. What is Don Manuel's behavior when he comes to perform at Sophia's wedding, and why?

7. How is El Paso described the first time Juan and his family see it, and how do they feel upon arriving?

8. Under what circumstances does Guadalupe meet Don Victor and marry him?

9. What events lead to the death of Don Tiburcio?

10. What does Rose-Mary do to Lupe on her first day of school, and why?

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