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

2. What weapon does Dona Guadalupe give to her son after she frees him from being hanged?
(a) An old pistol.
(b) A bow and arrow.
(c) A heavy hatchet.
(d) A large dagger.

3. In Chapter 12, who does the reader learn has fallen in love with Socorro?
(a) Emmanuel.
(b) Don Victor.
(c) Don Tiburcio.
(d) Victoriano.

4. What is it that crashes into the canyon and causes many, including Guadalupe, to think it is the end of the world?
(a) A large boulder.
(b) Dynamite.
(c) A meteorite.
(d) A cannonball.

5. How many men start the new community with Don Castro?
(a) 52 men.
(b) 45 men.
(c) 50 men.
(d) 48 men.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why are the train passengers put off the train and forced to camp while the train leaves?

4. Why does La Liebre decide to have Victoriano hanged in the town square?

5. When Lupe first sees Don Victor coming towards the village, what does she think he is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Don Pio Castro and his brothers looking for when they set out from Mexico City?

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

3. What is the setting like when Socorro is giving birth?

4. What effect does the revolution have on Don Castro's village?

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

6. What has Victoriano done to upset La Liebre?

7. What does Juan tell God when he is collecting firewood?

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

9. How does Guadalupe come to live with Leonides Camargo?

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

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