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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens after Josefa helps the father?
(a) The father gives Josefa food.
(b) The survivors give blankets and medicine to the young couple.
(c) The father weeps.
(d) Josefa and Jerónimo are accepted into the group of survivors.

2. What did Josefa pray for after the earthquake?
(a) Mercy.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Jerónimo's soul.
(d) Her baby's soul.

3. Where do they plan on going after the tremors stop?
(a) La Serena.
(b) Concepcion.
(c) Temuco.
(d) Iquique.

4. Where is Jerónimo when the story begins?
(a) At home.
(b) In a jail cell.
(c) By a river.
(d) In a field.

5. What does Jerónimo do when he awakens after the earthquake?
(a) He cleans himself off.
(b) He tends to his injuries.
(c) He looks for some water.
(d) He thanks God for his salvation.

6. How does the earthquake help Jerónimo?
(a) It clears a pathway to Josefa.
(b) It distracts him from killing himself.
(c) It distracts his enemies so that he can leave.
(d) It causes the walls around him to collapse.

7. Why was Josefa put in jail?
(a) She was going to leave the town.
(b) She stole bread to feed her child.
(c) She had a child out of wedlock.
(d) She lied to her parents.

8. Why was Josefa going to embrace the abbess?
(a) Out of love.
(b) Out of remorse.
(c) Out of relief.
(d) Out of fear.

9. What does a man announce in the church?
(a) That another earthquake will take place.
(b) That Jerónimo and Josefa blame themselves for the earthquake.
(c) That Jerónimo and Josefa are present.
(d) That someone has stolen his cow.

10. What does Don refuse to do?
(a) Listen to God.
(b) Leave Jerónimo and Josefa behind.
(c) Listen to Jerónimo and Josefa.
(d) Give food or advice to the young couple.

11. What does the priest blame the earthquake on?
(a) Those who do not practice religion.
(b) God testing them.
(c) The moral depravity of the town.
(d) The Lord's mysterious ways.

12. What is Jerónimo's last name?
(a) Neruda.
(b) Allende.
(c) Rugera.
(d) Mistral.

13. What is Jerónimo about to do when the story begins?
(a) Go to sleep.
(b) Go for a swim.
(c) Meet with Josefa.
(d) Hang himself.

14. What happens to Jerónimo's and Josefa's baby?
(a) The baby dies.
(b) Don and his wife adopt him.
(c) The baby is taken away.
(d) The baby is raised at the church.

15. What does the crowd do to Jerónimo and Josefa in the end?
(a) They banish them.
(b) They kill them.
(c) They injure them.
(d) They kidnap them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Don Fernando's wife injured?

2. What is the name of Jerónimo's and Josefa's baby?

3. Where does Jerónimo collapse after the earthquake?

4. After the earthquake, where do Jerónimo's legs carry him?

5. What happens to Don's baby?

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