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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. Who is taken from the van in Chapter 4?

2. After the battle in Zerikow in Chapter 7, how many were dead?

3. What is the name of the other student from Nacional who comes with Valencia to La Vigia?

4. When did Azad Khan die?

5. In Chapter 5, the week after Mason's father taught Mason's daughter a skill, how many road accidents were there in Mason's county after snow fell?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what does Agudelo remember about the attack he suffered when he worked with the Sofia Perez Lawyers' Collective?

2. How does Diego find a place for Lisette to go and try to find a story?

3. In Chapter 5, what did Mason need to become?

4. How does Mason feel when his father teaches Inez how to fell a tree?

5. What does Abel leave at Chepe's bar where his family and neighbors were killed?

6. What did El Aleman buy for his girlfriend's birthday?

7. How does Valencia get along with Luisa in Chapter 4?

8. What happens at a checkpoint at the end of Chapter 4?

9. How did Ocho cause dissent among his team members when they were in Colombia?

10. In 2007, why was it not possible to secure Afghanistan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mason is in Special Forces in Iraq and then Colombia. What does he think of missions he participates in? How is the trajectory of his career influenced by the missions he participates in?

Essay Topic 2

Abel tells his story in the third person in Chapters 1-3. Why does Abel tell his story from the third person point of view? How is the point of view that he uses symbolic of how he sees himself at that time of his life?

Essay Topic 3

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of the novel and why is that incident the climax?

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