Guatemala: Multiple Choice

Choose the best answer.

1) In the pueblo of San Miguel you may encounter:

a) A 41 year old woman with a 6 month old child.

b) A 41 year old woman with a 6 month old child who after a particularly difficult Caesarian section was pronounced dead by doctors, moved to a room in which the deceased are placed and later found to show a sign of life by a doctor in the room and then was subsequently revived.

c) A 41 year old woman with a 6 month old child who after a particularly difficult Caesarian section was pronounced dead by doctors, moved to a room in which the deceased are placed and later found to show a sign of life by a doctor in the room and then was subsequently revived. She now lives in a dirt floor house that is about the size of my living room with 5 children and an alcoholic husband.

d) A 41 year old woman with a 6 month old child who after a particularly difficult Caesarian section was pronounced dead by doctors, moved to a room in which the deceased are placed and later found to show a sign of life by a doctor in the room and then was subsequently revived. She now lives in a dirt floor house that is about the size of my living room with 5 children and an alcoholic husband. She can´t afford medicine and instead purchases something called Gotas Maravillosas (Wonderful/Miraculous Drops) from the pharmacy to treat illness of the lungs, stomach, and eyes.

e) None of the above.


2) After a particularly heavy downpour you find that the road which leads to your hotel is now blocked by a quick moving ¨impromptu¨ river approximately 8 feet wide. You decide to:

a) Try to jump it and risk being swept away at the delight of the dozen of so people waiting to cross.

b) Get on the back of a dirt bike as he speeds through the water.

c) Yell to a couple in a pickup truck that there is a river in the road and jump in the back.

d) Hold on to the back of a school bus as it crosses the flood

e) Wait for government officials to contract the construction of a bridge.


3) Customs officials in the Guatemala City airport:

a) Do not exist

b) Check everyone´s bags with great concern and patience.

c) Will only check your bags if you have checked YES indicating that you are carrying something that should be taxed.

d) Will only check your bags if you have checked YES indicating that you are carrying something that should be taxed and if you actually hand said form to an official unfolded and are more than three steps from the exit.


4) The noises the keep you from sleeping could be:

a) The natural bacteria of your digestive system waging loud and cacophonous war against strange invaders.

b) The animal that is searching your backpack for something to eat.

c) The buses that begin honking at the other buses that are honking at the other buses that are honking at the bus in which there is a man yelling something unintelligible at the top of his lungs at 4am.

d) A terrible suctioning noise radiating from the toilet attempting to refill itself, a problem which appears to be a result of poor water pressure and the only resolution is to slowly, agonizingly fill a Gatorade bottle with water with the same low, low pressure in order to dump in the tank of the toilet.

e) All of the above










Correct answers:

1) D
2) B,C, or D
3) D
4) E