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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 are the workers interested in hearing?

2. What is the band on a cigar the symbol of?

3. How does the boy from New England find the ritual he helps Conchita with?

4. Which character in the story does Santiago identify with?

5. What does Conchita know about her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whose side of the issue does Santiago take and how does he solve it?

2. What has Chechy purchased and how does Ofelia react to the purchase?

3. What is Marela wearing when she enters the factory?

4. How would you describe the woman at the factory and Juan Julian upon his arrival?

5. What do Conchita and Palomo debate about and what in the novel does she compare her husband's feelings about?

6. What does Marela propose about Juan Julian?

7. What information does Santiago reveal about his gambling habit?

8. What happens with the first Anna Karenina cigar?

9. What is bothering Ofelia and what does she say about it?

10. What information did the women have about the new lector?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Marela talked about how the living must look after the dead so that they can count on them to help the living when they die cross over, how did you respond to her thoughts? Do you agree or disagree with her? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

How does the author intertwine the plot from the novel the lector is reading into the plot of the play? Do you feel this is done successfully? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Marela would always leave as Chechy approached her? What do you think Chechy wanted? How do you think he felt as Juan Julian told Marela she was beautiful?

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