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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. Who is eloping with Maria?
(a) Esabel.
(b) Ramon.
(c) Miguel.
(d) Pedro.

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

3. Why does the first owner sell the spring?
(a) He has to move back to his home country.
(b) The nuggets are depleted.
(c) He does not sell it. It is stolen.
(d) The war makes it too dangerous.

4. Why does Juan Salvador distract the foreman of a farm as his family is passing it?
(a) So that his family can cut through the field as a shortcut.
(b) So that his family can sneak into the barn to take a nap.
(c) So that his family can steal corn.
(d) Because he is a troublemaker.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Juan and his sisters find seeds for their dinner while trying to walk to the U.S.?

2. What special gift does Don Tiburcio bring to Dona Guadalupe for her family to share?

3. What do Epitacio and Juan see across the Rio Grande?

4. At the funeral celebration for Don Benito, who announces that they are getting married?

5. What does Don Victor tell Lupe that makes her resent him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Lupe supposed to give her teacher on the first day of school?

2. Why are Juan and his family heading north to El Paso?

3. What happens to the teacher's salary in the little village and what action do the townspeople take when they find out?

4. Why do Juan and Eduardo miss the train?

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

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

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

8. What happens to Victoriano, Ramon, and Don Benito on the day they are planning to blast out the gold?

9. What is the condition that the townspeople put on collecting the gold from the spring?

10. In Chapter Eight, what has recently happened to Emilia?

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