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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 many years older than Brando is Brando's girlfriend?

2. Munra resents the fact that it took Chabela only how many days to take a liking to Norma?

3. After a period of severe torture, Brando finally told his captor about the door to an upstairs room in which character's house?

4. To what location did Munra repeatedly refuse to take Norma before finally relenting?

5. Munra complains that Luismi spends his time in all but which one of the following locations?

Short Essay Questions

1. What action did Brando take at the Witch's house the night of the attempted robbery that injured the Witch significantly?

2. In what way does the theme of guilt and responsibility enter the narrative within Chapter V?

3. What message does Melchor send about the practice of victim-blaming in Chapter V and how does she send it?

4. What information did Brando finally reveal when various methods were used to get him to talk?

5. What development in the plot brings Brando joy at the end of Chapter VI and why?

6. What is the nature of the familial relationship among Chabela, Luismi, and Munra?

7. From whose perspective are the events of Chapter VI presented?

8. What message does Melchor send about the power of listening during Luismi's discussion with Munra in Chapter IV?

9. What did Brando buy with the 2,000 pesos he acquired and what does the purchase show about his character?

10. How does Melchor characterize Munra's discovery of Norma's true age?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the themes of eccentricity and conformity depicted within Melchor’s Hurricane Season?

Essay Topic 2

Sensory details are used frequently by Melchor in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of Hurricane Season. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Melchor’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of Hurricane Season and analyze Melchor’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.

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