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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. Why are Gen's services needed right away?

2. Unfortunately for the accompanist, what is happening to him?

3. As the opera singer kisses the opera singer what happens in the novel?

4. What is the first communication between Roxane and Mr. Hosokawa?

5. Who is Joachim Messner?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the terrorists choose not to shoot a dead body, what are they proving about themselves?

2. How have Ruben and Roxane adjusted into their roles in the house?

3. When two terrorists are revealed to be females what changes?

4. Why has Gen become incredibly busy during his stay at Ruben's house?

5. What type of mood is set for the beginning of the novel?

6. What is happening to the health of the accompanist?

7. How does the novel begin and what mood is established?

8. Why do the terrorists choose to keep Roxane at the house?

9. Why does Messner become jealous of the hostages?

10. How does Joachim Messner feel about being at Ruben's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author establish Ruben's home as a prison and as an alternate reality?

What qualities about the home are likened to a prison? What about the home allows them to see it as a safe place.

Essay Topic 2

Compare an inner city gang to that of the jungle terrorists.

How do the two groups work to recruit uneducated young people and promise them better lives?

Do they threaten their members to join and then never let them leave?

Essay Topic 3

As Messner visits the house for the last time, he warns Gen that the government has figured out a solution to the problem of the terrorists.

Why does Gen blatantly ignore the warning?

How could Gen have warned everyone and possibly saved Carmen's life?

Do you think everyone in the house is responsible for outcome of the siege?

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