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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. Where does the Colonel tell Tomas one saves lives?

2. In Chapter Seventeen, what does Tomas do with Elizabeth?

3. What kind of intelligent does the Colonel say that Tomas is?

4. What is Pichuca upset about in Chapter Seventeen?

5. What is actually in the shots Tomas gives the prisoners?

Short Essay Questions

1. What substance does Tomas routinely administer by injection to prisoners, and why?

2. Where does Isabel ask Tomas to try to get a job in Chapter Ten?

3. In Chapter Sixteen, what does Tomas learn about the Colonel that could hurt the Colonel's position in the army if others knew about it?

4. Why does Triste tell Tomas to speak to Gordo in Chapter Twelve?

5. What does Gustavo tell Tomas and Pichuca to do on the drive to his house with Isabel?

6. What does Tomas do for Gustavo in Chapter Ten?

7. Why is Tomas's mother getting increasingly worried about him in Buenos Aires in Chapter Ten?

8. What does Tomas recall about his mother's death?

9. What does Isabel show Tomas in the shed behind her house?

10. What job does the Colonel end up arranging for Tomas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the foundations of Tomas's relationship with the Colonel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does Tomas end up feeling about his own survival and the fact of his complicity in the government's/junta's torture regime? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Loedel's own family history, as he describes it in the afterword, inform his writing of this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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