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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. What is the first cure the neighborhood women use for Demetrio Macias' fever?
(a) Pulque to drink.
(b) Corn liquor to drink.
(c) Pigeon blood on his abdomen.
(d) Alcohol-soaked bread on his abdomen.

2. What profession gives Venancio his medical knowledge?
(a) He is a barber.
(b) He is a law student.
(c) He is a dentist.
(d) He is a doctor.

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

4. How does Luis Cervantes believe Madero rewarded the peasants who helped him gain power?
(a) He gave them worthless bonuses.
(b) He gave them posts in the army.
(c) He paid them pensions.
(d) He sent them home.

5. Why is Anastasio Montanes unafraid of bullets?
(a) He's been shot many times.
(b) He is too fast to be shot.
(c) He wears a bulletproof vest.
(d) He is hoping to die.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luis Cervantes try to persuade Demetrio Macias to do before attacking a village?

2. What does Demetrio Macias hope to do when the war is over?

3. Why does Demetrio Macias send his wife away?

4. What does Natera say that he has heard abou Demetrio Macias?

5. To what does Luis Cervantes' old acquaintance compare the men in the revolution?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were Demetrio Macias and his men able to get the drop on the Federal soldiers in the barracks?

2. How do the rebels refer to their opponents and why?

3. How does Camila expect Luis Cervantes to react when she tells him that Demetrio Macias has been flirting with her?

4. What does Luis Cervantes insist that the band should do when he learns that Huerta is preparing a final defense in Zacatecas?

5. How did General Natera react to Demetrio Macias' arrival in Zacatecas?

6. Why is Luis Cervantes annoyed by Camila?

7. How does Luis Cervantes try to persuade Camila to go with Demetrio Macias?

8. How does the author describe the Sierra?

9. How did Luis Cervantes change his allegiance from the Federal army?

10. Why does Demetrio Macias not want to take any of the women he admires into the towns they visit?

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