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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. What did the General know that Ben would do if he was captured?

2. What is Miro's character perceived to be?

3. What is the name Ben's father uses in relation to Inner Delta missions?

4. Why is the General leading this new life?

5. Why does Miro kill Kate?

Short Essay Questions

1. To the reader, what does it seem like the General has chosen?

2. Why is Raymond forced to take more candy?

3. What explains Ben's need for forgiveness from his father.

4. What does Kate underestimate about Miro?

5. Why has Ben felt so much guilt over the past few years?

6. What does the reader discover about the General in this section?

7. How is the book's ending ironic?

8. What does Miro think about as Artkin tortures Ben?

9. What is shocking about the end of the novel?

10. What does the reader begin to wonder about Ben's involvement with the terrorists?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kate, Ben, and Raymond are all but in a very dangerous situation in which there is little hope and a large amount of doubt.

How do characters deal with doubt in the novel?

What do they look to in order to carry themselves through the difficult situations they have been put in?

Essay Topic 2

How has the General's actions caused Ben to commit suicide?

How could the General have prevented the death of his son?

Essay Topic 3

What American rites of passage are present or mentioned in this novel?

What characters are forced to go through these?

How might these rites of passage differ from ones that Miro was forced to live through.

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