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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Demetrio Macias do to the young recruit who tries to enter Don Monico's house?
(a) He shoots him.
(b) He admonishes him.
(c) He warns him.
(d) He stabs him.

3. Why have Demetrio Macias' friends prepared a banquet in his honor?
(a) To celebrate his promotion to general.
(b) To celebrate his conquering the town.
(c) To celebrate his birthday.
(d) To celebrate his promotion to colonel.

4. Where is Luis Cervantes after the war?
(a) Aguascalientes.
(b) Zacatecas.
(c) El Paso, Texas.
(d) The Sierra.

5. Where had the two old friends originally become acquainted?
(a) The Escobedo Penitentiary.
(b) The Federal army.
(c) The tavern in Zacatecas.
(d) Demetrio Macias' farm.

6. What does Valderrama count as the rebels travel to Juchipila?
(a) Felled trees.
(b) Corpses.
(c) Burned houses.
(d) Crosses.

7. How many men have the rebels recruited in a week?
(a) One hundred and fifty.
(b) Five hundred.
(c) Two hundred and fifty.
(d) Fifty.

8. How does Luis Cervantes persuade the girl to come with him to the rebel camp?
(a) He tells her he has come for her.
(b) He threatens harm to her family.
(c) He tells her Demetrio Macias loves her.
(d) He tells her she will be well paid.

9. What does Margarito call himself when he realizes he has accidentally killed his prisoner?
(a) A hero.
(b) An animal.
(c) A villain.
(d) A softie.

10. What premonition does Demetrio Macias have?
(a) "The Federals will capture me."
(b) "Mexico will rise like the sun."
(c) "Something's going to happen to me."
(d) "Someone's going to kill me."

11. What do the rebels take from Don Monico's house?
(a) Gold and jewelry.
(b) Paper money.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Food and supplies.

12. Who refuses Luis Cervantes' offer of help?
(a) War Paint.
(b) Camila.
(c) Demetrio Macias.
(d) Margarito.

13. What do Demetrio Macias' men brag about as they drink in the tavern at night?
(a) People they have killed.
(b) The future of the country.
(c) People they have frightened.
(d) Goods they have stolen.

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

15. What does War Paint promise the kidnapped girl?
(a) She will earn a lot of money.
(b) War Paint will stick up for her.
(c) To take her safely home.
(d) She will come to love the rebel life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Pancracio and Lard die?

2. Why are the rebels going to Aguascalientes?

3. What does Demetrio Macias promise Camila?

4. Why does Luis Cervantes object to the looting?

5. What refrain from the song does Demetrio Macias repeat again and again?

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