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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Quail and Lard pleased after their skirmish in Jalisco?
(a) They were given a parade.
(b) They did a lot of fighting.
(c) They have been treated like heroes.
(d) They have a lot of loot.

2. What have they spent their money on?
(a) Food and clothing.
(b) Advances and bonuses.
(c) Weapons and ammunition.
(d) Whiskey and women.

3. What does Venancio hope to do after the war?
(a) Open a Mexican restaurant.
(b) Go to medical school.
(c) Stay in the army.
(d) Retire to his ranch.

4. What does Margarito order that the bar is unable to provide?
(a) Milk.
(b) Water.
(c) Pulque.
(d) Tequila.

5. Who fights over Margarito's treatment of the villager?
(a) War Paint and Camila.
(b) War Paint and Margarito.
(c) Margarito and Luis Cervantes.
(d) Margarito and Camila.

6. What does Margarito claim he has trained his prisoner to do?
(a) Survive without water.
(b) Face death without fear.
(c) Survive without eating.
(d) Walk without shoes.

7. What does Luis Cervantes present to Demetrio Macias at the banquet?
(a) A certificate of valor.
(b) A military stripe.
(c) A Mexican flag.
(d) A brass eagle.

8. What old friend does Anastasio suddenly recognize?
(a) Luis Cervantes.
(b) Venancio.
(c) Demetrio Macias.
(d) Margarito.

9. Where does Demetrio Macias receive orders to go from Tepatitlan?
(a) The Sierra.
(b) Zacatecas.
(c) Aguascalientes.
(d) The capital.

10. What does Margarito think could kill him?
(a) His own pent-up fear.
(b) A government spy.
(c) A faithless woman.
(d) His own pent-up rage.

11. Who is Demetrio Macias ordered to fight in Jalisco?
(a) Montanes.
(b) Nadera.
(c) Orozco.
(d) Huerta.

12. How does Anastasio tell the time?
(a) By his stolen watch.
(b) By asking War Paint.
(c) By the location of the stars in the Big Dipper.
(d) By gauging the light.

13. What saddens Demetrio Macias when they stop at a farmhouse for the night?
(a) His longing for his own home.
(b) The poverty of the Mexican landowners.
(c) The cruel treatment of the farm animals.
(d) The hard conditions of a crippled laborer.

14. What surprising news do the captured men give Demetrio Macias?
(a) Narete has been defeated in Celaya.
(b) Villa has been defeated in Celaya.
(c) Huerta has been defeated in Celaya.
(d) Zapata has been defeated in Celaya.

15. What does the poor villager complain that Demetrio Macias' men have done to him?
(a) Taken all his flour.
(b) Burned down his house.
(c) Killed all his animals.
(d) Taken all his corn.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Margarito express his suicidal wish?

2. What does Margarito call himself when he realizes he has accidentally killed his prisoner?

3. What does Anastasio wonder about now that the Federal soldiers have been defeated?

4. Which men have been made majors under General Demetrio Macias?

5. Why does Margarito mistreat the Federal soldier he has taken prisoner?

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