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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. How does Gen feel about relaying Victor's message?

2. What does the General want to discuss with Mr. Hosokawa?

3. How does Mr. Hosokawa now make his way through the house?

4. How does Hosokawa die?

5. Who is Roxane thinking about as she gives her speech?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the hostages and terrorists begin to make a schedule for their new lives?

2. Who discovers that Roxane and Mr. Hosokawa are in love with one another?

3. To Roxane, what is true love?

4. What does General Benjamin realize about the way he handled the siege?

5. Why do Victor and everyone else in the house fall in love with Roxane?

6. As each day passes on, what interesting things are happening between the hostages and terrorists?

7. What don't Gen and Roxane realize that Carmen is doing by helping them?

8. What does Gen's kindness to Beatriz foreshadow?

9. Why does Father become upset with everyone's reaction to the garden?

10. What happens when Cesar begins to sing a capella?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many characters in the book fall in love with Roxane. Are these characters actually in love with her or are they in lust with her?

What is the difference between lust and love?

Why is it important to recognize the difference between the two?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the entire novel Gen is extremely kind to Beatriz. He notices that she is also a girl from the jungle who wants to learn more.

- How does Gen's kindness end up saving Carmen?

- How does Beatriz's counseling with Father allow her the ability to be kind and forgive others?

Essay Topic 3

What do the house and guara symbolize throughout the novel?

Does Patchett use a lot of symbolization in the novel? So you think it is effective for the story?

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