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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 does Horacio do between Chapters 56 and 135?
2. What literary convention does Morelli decry in Chapter 112?
3. Who does Horacio call to talk about his dream in Chapter 100?
4. What does Pola wonder as she and Horacio make love in Chapter 101?
5. What fear does Morelli express in Chapter 82?
Short Essay Questions
1. What eerie, somewhat mystical, harbinger comes to Pola in Chapter 64?
2. How is Traveler affected by Horacio in this section?
3. How is the prose style of Chapter 34 unusual?
4. Professionally, what changes for Traveler, Horacio and Talita in this section?
5. How does Traveler's codependency with Horacio manifest itself in this section?
6. Describe Horacio's dream in Chapter 100.
7. Why is the Morelli argument in Chapter 99 a relief to Horacio?
8. What is Horacio's state of mind in this section?
9. What two meanings of the term hopscotch appear in the first book?
10. What cold comfort does Horacio offer La Maga in Chapter 108?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The motif of madness permeates the second book of HOPSCOTCH to the point that by the end even the reader is unsure what is real and what is not. Write an essay on the topic of madness, focusing on the character of Horacio. What begins his spiral away from sanity? How does encroaching madness manifest itself at first, and how does it accelerate when he begins to work at the mental hospital? In the end, how is Horacio unable to process reality?
Essay Topic 2
The novel HOPSCOTCH owes as much to the modernist movement of the the early twentieth century as the era in which it was written and is set. The most pointed of these debts is its use of stream-of-consciousness logic. Write an essay on the free associative qualities both of the ruminations of characters and the structure of the novel as a whole. Which characters engage in stream-of-conscious diatribes,a nd what fuels these? Moreover, to what extent do the expendable chapters often serve as free association, linking to some aspect of a narrative scene and going off on a digression?
Essay Topic 3
The second book of HOPSCOTCH deals primarily with the pained triangle that develops between the Travelers and Horacio. Write an essay about this triangle, assessing what each participant gains and risks from it. How does Manolo Traveler begin to deteriorate mentally and emotionally after Horacio arrives in Buenos Aires? Discuss why this is, and why he insists on keeping Horatio close. How is Talita affected by this codependency and how does this manifest itself in the events of Book 2? In summation, to what climax does all the fretting of this triangle lead?
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