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

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the cure that Senora Remigia brings to Demetrio Macias?

2. What unanswerable question does Demetrio Macias ask Luis Cervantes?

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

4. What do Demetrio Macias' men plan to do if the Federal soldiers outnumber them?

5. What advantage do Anastasio and Demetrio Macias believe Luis Cervantes possesses?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Luis Cervantes try to persuade Demetrio Macias to do as they approach the town where they are planning to attack the Federal soldiers?

2. Why does Luis Cervantes begin to suspect that he has made another mistake?

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

4. What does the shooting of the dog named "Palomo, the dove," symbolize?

5. Why does the villager tell Demetrio Macias that it doesn't matter how many Federal soldiers are in the barracks?

6. Why does Luis Cervantes say he has come to join Demetrio Macias?

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

8. Why does Demetrio Macias order Quail to steal a priest's cassock?

9. What kind of atmosphere is created as the rebels loot bodies of the soldiers they have killed?

10. How does the author describe the Sierra?

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