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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes to the jail to give Eli a lecture on morality in Chapter Thirty-four?
(a) Judge Wilson.
(b) Sheriff Van Zandt.
(c) Judge Black.
(d) Judge Wilbarger.

2. Who Ulises Garcia’s ancestor in the McCullough family?
(a) Jonas McCullough.
(b) Peter McCullough.
(c) Phineas McCullough.
(d) Charles McCullough.

3. In what year does Chapter Thirty-four begin?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1852.
(c) 2012.
(d) 1911.

4. Where had Coffee Hays gone when he gave up Texas, according to Eli in Chapter Forty?
(a) New York.
(b) Maryland.
(c) California.
(d) Connecticut.

5. When does the narrative take place in Chapter Sixty-three?
(a) The late 1850s.
(b) The early 1870s.
(c) The early 1920s.
(d) The mid-1980s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date of Peter McCullough’s first diary entry in Chapter Fifty-eight?

2. What are the names of Jeanne’s grandsons?

3. Who is Jeanne’s lover that she recalls leaving her in Chapter Sixty-four?

4. What is the date of Peter’s first diary entry in Chapter Thirty-nine?

5. Who is the cook at the McCullough ranch in Chapter Twenty-four?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Jeanne’s relationship with her grandsons described in Chapter Sixty?

2. How does Jeanne come to be knocked unconscious in Chapter Sixty-nine?

3. How does the author illustrate Jeanne’s political connections in Chapter Thirty-five?

4. Why do you think that Maria tells Peter about the curse on the Garcia family in Chapter Forty-two?

5. Where is Eli working in 1864? How is his home described in Chapter Forty-nine?

6. What is the earliest conflict between the Garcias and the McCulloughs, as illustrated in Chapter Fifty-nine?

7. Discuss Jeanne’s relationship with motherhood, as seen in Chapter Thirty-eight. Does Jeanne enjoy being a mother?

8. How is the character of Ulises Garcia introduced in Chapter Fifty-seven? What is Ulises’s objective?

9. What is represented symbolically by the feud between the McCulloughs and the Garcias and its aftermath in the novel?

10. What leads up to Eli’s arrest in Chapter Thirty-seven? Who turns Eli in?

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