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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 6, "Federico Robles".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the factory owners do to punish the workers who are striking?
(a) They kill them.
(b) They refuse the workers food for weeks.
(c) They taunt them.
(d) They fire them.

2. What drives Dona Lorenza?
(a) The need to be remembered.
(b) The need to maintain the family's honor and aristocratic heritage.
(c) Her chauffeur.
(d) The need to keep native Mexican traditions.

3. What does Gervasio Pola stage?
(a) An escape via a garbage cart.
(b) A musical about Mexican politics.
(c) A war against the revolutionaries.
(d) A strike at a factory in Mexico City.

4. To whom does Zamacona lecture?
(a) The old, wealthy aristocrats.
(b) A class of grade school children.
(c) The younger, eager crowd of writers.
(d) A crowd of blue collar workers.

5. What does Gervasio announce when he reaches the outpost?
(a) He wants to go home.
(b) His readiness to join the movement.
(c) He is lost.
(d) He is ready to join the Federal army.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dona Lorenza believe about the political and economic shifts?

2. With what is the narrator now dealing?

3. What does Bobo begin to do the morning after the party?

4. In what does Robles' general give him lessons?

5. What does Dona Lorenza teach Benjamin?

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