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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Venancio want to do when the war is over?
(a) Stay in the military.
(b) Get married.
(c) Grow his barber business.
(d) Become a doctor.

2. What does Demetrio Macias' wife want him to do to the marauders?
(a) Release them.
(b) Tell the authorities about them.
(c) Feed them dinner.
(d) Kill them.

3. What is the cure that Senora Remigia brings to Demetrio Macias?
(a) Corn liquor to drink.
(b) Pigeon blood on his abdomen.
(c) Pulque to drink.
(d) Alcohol-soaked bread on his abdomen.

4. What effect does Senora Remigia's cure have on Demetrio Macias?
(a) It brings him much relief.
(b) It brings him no relief.
(c) It makes him worse.
(d) It brings a little relief.

5. Who helps Luis Cervantes to eat and cleans his wounded leg?
(a) Anastasio.
(b) Quail.
(c) Demetrio Macias.
(d) Camila.

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

7. What keeps Luis Cervantes from sleeping on his first night with Demetrio Macias' band?
(a) His wounded foot.
(b) His battered body.
(c) His sense of failure.
(d) The smell of animals.

8. What does Luis Cervantes begin to suspect about the revolutionaries?
(a) They are examples of courage.
(b) They are nothing more than bandits.
(c) They cannot win.
(d) They cannot lose.

9. Demetrio Macias says that you find out who your true friends are in __________________.
(a) Bed and prison.
(b) Hospital and prison.
(c) Church and school.
(d) Hospital and school.

10. Who fights over their card game?
(a) Lard and Pancracio.
(b) Anastasio and Quail.
(c) Pancracio and Anastasio.
(d) Quail and Lard.

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

12. Why are there more Federal soldiers in town than Demetrio Macias had anticipated?
(a) They had met up with unexpected reinforcements.
(b) They had released the prisoners from jail.
(c) They had recruited the villagers.
(d) They had telephoned for reinforcements.

13. What does Luis Cervantes advise Demetrio Macias to do?
(a) Ambush Natera's forces.
(b) Take over the command of Natera's forces.
(c) Split from Natera's forces.
(d) Join with Natera's forces.

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

15. What honor does Natera give Demetrio Macias?
(a) He makes him a general.
(b) He gives him a hero's award.
(c) He makes him a captain.
(d) He makes him a colonel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Luis Cervantes riding with before Demetrio Macias?

2. What do Demetrio Macias' men do when they find Serapio and Antonio, who were thought to be lost, hanged?

3. According to Demetrio Macias, who defeated all the federal soldiers in town with just a half dozen men?

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

5. Why are the rebels sorry to leave the village?

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