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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

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 is Espirito searching for in Chapter 1?

3. What do the villagers do as a result of the revolution on their small community?

4. What job does Dona Margarita get so that she can feed her family?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What purpose does setting have in a literary work? What are some ways or means though which setting is established in this novel? Please provide three examples of settings that can be found in this story.

Essay Topic 2

Please define the two major reasons that so many Mexican residents, such as Lupe and her family, immigrated to the United States during the early 1900s. Please provide examples from the story. What are those who left Mexico for the U.S. looking for upon arriving in America? What do they find?

Essay Topic 3

Please describe what purpose tone plays in a novel, what/where tone is seen or conveyed in a novel, and provide three examples of tone in the story.

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