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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 is the nickname for the place where the boys wait in the airport?

2. What is the name for counter-Revolutionaries, as mentioned in Chapter 29?

3. What aspect of the breadfruit "[speaks] of swamps, ooze, eggs and sperm, and infinite reproduction"?

4. Who says that "evil [...] is the absence of good"?

5. What does Carlos do on the morning of the day he leaves Cuba?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at Carlos's co-ed school when someone finds out that a certain boy likes a certain girl?

2. Describe the Communist propaganda that Carlos hears in Chapter 38.

3. According to Chapter 28, for what is Carlos's uncle Mario almost imprisoned?

4. Describe Addison's backyard.

5. How does Louis XVI react to the angry lady in Chapter 34, and how does he feel afterward?

6. Describe the "niños bitongos."

7. Why does Carlos want to request a Coke as his first act in the United States?

8. How does El Loco become the hero of Chapter 32?

9. Describe the event that Carlos dreams of as thunder in Chapter 29.

10. According to Chapter 31, what happens when Carlos is swimming in Minnesota?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the personal and professional lives of Fidel.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Carlos's use of writing techniques to propel the plot forward quickly in the scene of his experiencing the gunfight in the park.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the themes of fear and risk-taking and how the two interact with each other in the novel.

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