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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had Don Monico come to arrest Demetrio Macias?

2. What news do the muleteers bring to the revolutionaries?

3. What does Quail have nightmares about?

4. What did the villager who helped Demetrio Macias want the rebels to do in return?

5. What keeps Luis Cervantes from sleeping on his first night with Demetrio Macias' band?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the leader of the Federal soldiers.

3. Why is Luis Cervantes annoyed by Camila?

4. Who are Serapio and Antonio?

5. Why does Demetrio Macias hate Don Monico?

6. What had offended Luis Cervantes during his time with the Federal army?

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

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

9. Why is Alberto Solis surprised to see Luis Cervantes in Zacatecas?

10. How is Luis Cervantes greeted when he first comes to the rebel camp?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This book is notable for the amount of information given in the foreword, introduction, chronology of the revolution, chronology of Azuela's life, and notes at the end. In your essay, discuss the importance of this supplemental information. Why was so much included? What help does it provide a reader?

Essay Topic 2

What do you think the author's purpose was in writing this story? Does it have relevance to readers almost a century later? If there is a moral to the story, what is it? In your essay, discuss what you believe the author's overarching reason for writing this book would be and whether it is of value today.

Essay Topic 3

The foreword to this book begins with the quotation, "Revolutions begin fighting tyranny and end fighting themselves." Discuss what the various characters in the story believed themselves to be fighting for and against. Are they united in their intentions and understanding of what they are doing? Why or why not? Do their intentions and understanding of what they are fighting for and against change in the course of the story?

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