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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Demetrio Macias instruct his wife to go?
(a) To the neighbor's house.
(b) To her uncle's house.
(c) To her father's house.
(d) To his father's house.

2. What is Luis Cervantes' profession?
(a) Medical student and novelist.
(b) Journalist and novelist.
(c) Journalist and medical student.
(d) Poet and novelist.

3. What is a curro?
(a) A country bumpkin.
(b) A foreigner.
(c) A city slicker.
(d) A hillbilly.

4. What advantage do Anastasio and Demetrio Macias believe Luis Cervantes possesses?
(a) He can make stirring speeches.
(b) He can grasp complicated concepts.
(c) He can read and write.
(d) He can attract women.

5. What does Luis Cervantes say will be the result of their uprising?
(a) The division of their motherland.
(b) The exaltation of their motherland.
(c) The destruction of their motherland.
(d) The unification of their motherland.

6. Who kills the leader of the Federal soldiers?
(a) Demetrio Macias.
(b) Pancracio.
(c) Luis Cervantes.
(d) Anastasio.

7. What does Luis Cervantes tell Camila her future would be like with Demetrio Macias?
(a) A life of plenty.
(b) A life of deprivation.
(c) A life of constant fleeing.
(d) A life of honor.

8. What does Luis Cervantes tell Demetrio Macias that Macias does not yet understand?
(a) Macias does not understand the cacique system.
(b) Macias does not understand his own noble mission.
(c) Macias does not understand the villainy of politicians.
(d) Macias does not understand the thrill of battle.

9. What did the rebels make hand grenades with?
(a) Caps and rocks.
(b) Gasoline and rags.
(c) Iron pipes and brass knobs.
(d) Gunpowder and firecrackers.

10. What effect does Camila's speech have on Luis Cervantes?
(a) Like steel scratching glass.
(b) Like a river over rocks.
(c) Like a guitar at night.
(d) Like birds singing.

11. What does Anastasio give the villager?
(a) Money.
(b) A rifle.
(c) Hand grenades.
(d) A secret signal.

12. What does the author say that alcohol was to the rebels in their celebration?
(a) A giver of courage.
(b) A warmth in the heart.
(c) A warmth in the belly.
(d) A bad advisor.

13. What does Quail have nightmares about?
(a) Men he saw hung.
(b) Men he shot.
(c) Men he stabbed.
(d) Men he saw shot.

14. Why had Don Monico come to arrest Demetrio Macias?
(a) Demetrio Macias was a witness to a murder.
(b) Demetrio Macias was a Maderista.
(c) Demetrio Macias killed a man in a bar fight.
(d) Demetrio Macias killed Felipe Diaz.

15. What do the rebels take from the soldiers?
(a) Their clothes.
(b) Their money.
(c) Their watches.
(d) Their uniforms.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the young carpenter who has been conscripted into the army pray?

2. Why does Senora Remigia have little food for Demetrio Macias' men?

3. Who fights over their card game?

4. How does Luis Cervantes believe Madero rewarded the peasants who helped him gain power?

5. What does Venancio want to do when the war is over?

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