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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who caused the fire on the ranch?
(a) A careless ranch hand.
(b) A careless neighbor.
(c) Lightening.
(d) Someone who wants to buy the ranch.

2. Who does Juan take to find the gold?
(a) Eileen.
(b) Win.
(c) Montero.
(d) Sean.

3. At what age does Sean have his first sea voyage?
(a) 19.
(b) 14.
(c) 3.
(d) 21.

4. Who decides to go looking for Juan?
(a) Just Montero.
(b) Just Sean and Eileen.
(c) Just Eileen and Montero.
(d) Sean, Montero, Eileen and Mariana.

5. What is one thing that has put the farm at risk?
(a) Bad luck.
(b) They grew too much of one crop.
(c) Legal problems.
(d) The cows had hoof and mouth disease.

6. Where is Eileen raised?
(a) Alabama.
(b) England.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Maine.

7. How do Eileen's family leave their homeland?
(a) By working for passage on an ocean liner.
(b) By working for passage on a freighter.
(c) On a smuggler's boat.
(d) By horseback.

8. Who used to go into the hills with Jaime?
(a) Juan.
(b) Sean.
(c) Win.
(d) Michael.

9. What are the local Indians known as?
(a) Skomish.
(b) Gringos.
(c) Chumash.
(d) Honest men and women.

10. Where does Eileen first move when she leaves her homeland?
(a) Canada.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Spain.
(d) Cuba.

11. How does Jaime obtain land in California?
(a) He marries the woman who owns the land.
(b) As a reward for service in the Mexican army.
(c) He inherits it from his father.
(d) He buys it from his brother.

12. To whom did Jaime direct Juan to tell a secret?
(a) Just Sean.
(b) Sean or Eileen.
(c) No one.
(d) Just Eileen.

13. What does Eileen feel as she suddenly wakens?
(a) That a dangerous animal is nearby.
(b) That Juan does not remember where Jaime found the gold.
(c) Someone is coming.
(d) That they should not be there.

14. For what are the Mulkerins looking in the hills?
(a) Natural gas.
(b) Gold.
(c) Artifacts.
(d) Oil.

15. How old is Juan?
(a) 80.
(b) No one knows.
(c) 44.
(d) 103.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Juan take the group?

2. Who is Jaime?

3. Who is the owner of a local cantina who is riding with Wooston?

4. What is Michael's occupation?

5. What is the main personality trait of Jorge Fernandez?

(see the answer keys)

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