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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Juan careful to do?
(a) Sing appeasing songs for the spirits.
(b) Rest often.
(c) Cover his and Eileen's tracks.
(d) Mark their trail discreetly.

2. Who does Eileen encounter in the local store?
(a) Machado.
(b) Wooston.
(c) Michael.
(d) Pio Pico.

3. Who laughs at Sean?
(a) Machado.
(b) Win.
(c) Sean laughs at himself.
(d) Juan.

4. Why is the merchant at the local store startled?
(a) At the tales of Wooston's treachery.
(b) At the change in fortune of the Mulkerin family.
(c) At the quantity of liquor Sean and Eileen buy.
(d) At the quantity and quality of gold Eileen shows him.

5. Who is waiting for Eileen's group when they return to the Mulkerin ranch?
(a) The governor.
(b) Wooston.
(c) A group of armed renegades.
(d) The sheriff.

6. Why does Sean become jealous?
(a) Because Silva dances with Mariana
(b) Because Machado dances with Mariana.
(c) Because Jorge dances with Mariana
(d) Because Wooston dances with Mariana

7. How does Russell feel as he is leaving the cave?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Euphoric.
(c) Dizzy and sick.
(d) Frightened.

8. What does a voice declare about Russell?
(a) That he is a foolish man.
(b) That he is an evil man.
(c) That he must not be allowed to remember the night.
(d) That he is innocent of wrongdoing.

9. What do Sean and Eileen do when they stop at a local store?
(a) Talk about what Wooston has done.
(b) Buy numerous quarts of whiskey for the fandango.
(c) Show everyone the gold they have found.
(d) Spread the news of the gold and the fandango.

10. Who will not take orders from a woman?
(a) Machado.
(b) Wooston.
(c) The armed men at the Mulkerin home.
(d) Sean.

11. What idea does Eileen share with Sean?
(a) About a fandango.
(b) About Juan.
(c) About Jaime and the gold.
(d) About Mariana's fate.

12. Why is Sean worried about Wooston?
(a) Because he may get violent.
(b) Because he may not bow to pressure.
(c) Because he has the backing of the governor.
(d) Because he is insane.

13. What does Russell find when he follows some tracks?
(a) Francisco.
(b) A table.
(c) Three men.
(d) Another cave.

14. Why does Machado want to wait until the morning to go up against Sean and the others?
(a) Machado thinks there are ghosts that will help Sean's group in the dark.
(b) Machado wants to rest.
(c) Many of the men do not want to move in the dark.
(d) Machado's group is in the open.

15. What will help the Mulkerin family obtain another loan?
(a) The appearance of wealth.
(b) A good word from the Bishop.
(c) Their political connections.
(d) A wealthy co-signer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Wooston want to take Russell away?

2. Who speaks to Machado's men from the darkness?

3. What does Russell find in the cave?

4. Who is missing from the group Wooston sent to confront Eileen's group?

5. Of whom is Russell said to be an enemy?

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