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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Caridad returns home from the pilgrimage, what does she do when she cannot sleep?
(a) Cleans obsessively.
(b) Cries.
(c) Writes letters.
(d) Reads aloud to her horse.

2. Francisco has no religious powers except when?
(a) The period between Christmas and New Year's.
(b) He awakes in the middle of the night.
(c) He is taking a bath.
(d) He is building a statue of a saint.

3. Why hasn't Sofi felt comfortable leaving the house over the previous twenty years?
(a) La Loca doesn't like being around anyone besides her mother.
(b) She thinks she is disfigured.
(c) She is overweight.
(d) She has agoraphobia.

4. Which war did Francisco fight in?
(a) Mexican Civil War.
(b) Korean.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) World War II.

5. Who pays for Caridad's house near El Santuario?
(a) Felicia.
(b) La Loca.
(c) Don Domingo.
(d) Caridad.

6. What are the brushes used to paint the bulto made of?
(a) Women's hair.
(b) Silk.
(c) Horsehair or yucca.
(d) Cacti.

7. What does Sofi's neighbor come by to borrow?
(a) Her makeup.
(b) Some corn.
(c) Wine glasses.
(d) A sewing machine.

8. Which of the following characters claims that healing does not take place without the work of God?
(a) Sofi.
(b) Felicia.
(c) Don Domingo.
(d) Caridad.

9. How is Caridad's reputation as a medium described?
(a) Sorry.
(b) Atrocious.
(c) Respectable.
(d) Ideal.

10. When does Caridad begin her first pilgrimage?
(a) The day after Christmas.
(b) Pentecost Sunday.
(c) Lenten Week.
(d) Palm Sunday.

11. What is special about Francisco El Penitente's position in his family?
(a) He is the only boy.
(b) He is the youngest.
(c) He is the seventh son.
(d) He is the firstborn.

12. About how old was Sofi when she met Don Domingo?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Three.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fourteen.

13. How did Felicia's second husband die?
(a) He committed suicide.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Car accident.

14. Why was Caridad's horse shot?
(a) She charged at La Loca.
(b) She had a broken hoof.
(c) They mistook her for a rabid fox.
(d) She had colic.

15. What does Fe suggest happened to Caridad?
(a) She died of praying.
(b) She went crazy.
(c) She was killed.
(d) She eloped.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Felicia choose to rent the trailer?

2. Who did Caridad prophetically predict was on her way home?

3. Which of Sofi's possessions did Domingo sell?

4. Who tells Maria to "hit the deck"?

5. Which of the following was not one of Don Domingo's compulsions?

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