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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 do Pilon and Pablo send the person in #25 to the wharf to do?
(a) Get a job.
(b) Beg for food.
(c) Clean squid.
(d) Buy fish.

2. How many dogs does the Pirate have?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

3. What does Danny drink when he learns of the inheritance?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Lite beer.
(c) Red wine.
(d) Vodka.

4. What do Danny and the jailer do while Danny is still incarcerated?
(a) Play cards.
(b) Go out for more wine.
(c) Watch TV.
(d) Swap stories.

5. What do Danny and Pilon eat for dinner the first night in the house?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Fish.
(c) Tacos.
(d) Cheese.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does the person in #26 still want to buy for the object of his affections even though she leaves him to go with some soldiers?

2. Where has Danny just returned from as the novel opens?

3. What do the other paisanos find on St. Andrews Eve?

4. What do the men try to learn from Pirate?

5. What does the Pirate sell every day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the paisanos follow the Pirate every morning?

2. How do the paisanos try to make peace with Danny?

3. What do the paisanos learn is in the Pirates' canvas bag and what is done with the bag at the house?

4. What does Pilon explain about keeping the treasures one finds in a St. Andrew's Eve dig?

5. What are Danny's reactions when he learns that his second house has burned down?

6. Who is the protagonist of the story and how is he introduced in the novel?

7. Which woman is Danny interested in and what is the attraction?

8. How does Arabella Gross take advantage of Jesus Maria Corcoran?

9. How does Pilon rationalize not getting any gold for Danny?

10. How does Jesus Maria Corcoran become the next tenant in the second house?

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