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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 the author of Las Papas?
2. From which country does the story The Verb To Kill come?
3. Who is the author of Looking for the Rain God?
4. Who eats a goat in the story Orion?
5. What does the young boy borrow from his father in By the Creek?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Di Grasso and The Street-Sweeping Show relate thematically?
2. Who are the characters in Emilie Plead Choose One Egg? What takes place in the story?
3. Why does the central female character in Facing the Light send her servant away? What realization does she face?
4. Who is the shoe breaker in The Shoe Breaker? What happens in this story?
5. What memory is related in the story Snow?
6. What takes place in Katya? Who are the characters and what actions do they take in the narrative?
7. What is implied in the story The Verb To Kill? What do the central characters do in the narrative?
8. How do the elderly couple in Mr. and Mrs. Martins prepare for death?
9. What does the protagonist in A Lover's Ear keep with her at all times? What takes place in the climax of the narrative?
10. How does the central theme and structure of Looking for the Rain God relate to other stories in the collection?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the setting of At the River and analyze the story's principle theme of age. How does this story's depiction of aging relate to others in the anthology?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the mythology of Xtabay, and the setting and themes in the story Iguana Hunting. What is symbolic in the children's vision?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the violence depicted in Arrest Me, Orion and The Verb To Kill. How are rape, imprisonment, and murder represented in each of the narratives? How do they relate to the tone of the other stories in the anthology?
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