Think you’ve got your head wrapped around All the Pretty Horses? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Let's say you're a ranch hand just like John Grady, and you've been invited to the private chamber of Dueña Alfonsa—good for you! But now she wants to play chess. What is likely to happen?
You beat her soundly and do your victory dance
You beat her, realize that she's just testing you, realize she realized you would realize before you realized, and then she beats you in the next round anyway.
You get high off too much tea and wind up throwing the game out of nervousness
Alfonsa stops the game halfway through to give a long philosophical disquisition and you fall asleep
Q. Alfonsa is most likely to complain about…
The arbitrariness of fate
The heavy burdens of the well-off
Systemic gender inequality
Her arthritic knees and radio soap operas
Q. Alfonsa is most likely to block your romantic endeavors by…
Coming on to you herself
Asserting the best interests of the object of your affection
Pointing to your suspicious associations
Both 2 and 3
Q. If she bails you out of a tough situation, it's likely because…
Again, she's totally coming on to you, bro
She's doing it for someone else she cares about more
She's doing it to make peace with a past regret
She's doing it to harm an enemy of hers
Q. If Alfonsa's talking about power relations, it's likely that she'll say…
We can't truly know how far power goes; there are no true 'puppet masters,' just endless series of puppet strings
Everything can be blamed on the men in society
Only the poorest are truly free
While women may seem powerless, they secretly control society by controlling men