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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 role does Antia’s mother have in Azabahar?

2. Which of the following of Rudolph’s smells of citrus?

3. Where did Nadine meet Fetu?

4. What is the name of Leticia’s daughter?

5. In which of the following had the Evanses volunteered?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason was Leticia’s first marriage legally invalid?

2. How does Nadine demonstrate her fellowship with her community in London?

3. How does Rudolph attempt to ease the sense of foreboding he feels at the beginning of the novel?

4. How does Nadine introduce herself to Samuel?

5. What about jazz infatuates Samuel?

6. Why does Selena’s family want her to take up with her long-term fiancé?

7. How does Volker mark the end of World War I?

8. How does Anita tell her sister to respond when she feels like crying?

9. Why does Leticia avoid discussing her background with people in the United States?

10. How does Anita describe her guardian angel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Early on, the comment is made that “the crowd’s raw, savage energy was contagious and even exhilarating,” such that a character “had to reject the impulse to transform into a monster, to destroy, burn, and shout till he had no air left in his lungs” (20). What does the comment indicate about mass action? Do the novel and experience confirm the indication? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

The novel remarks that many Central and South American countries suffered massive social upheaval in the 1970s and 1980s. Why, then, does El Salvador receive focus? That is, how does the specific focus on El Salvador shape the novel, or, how would the novel differ were a different Latin American country made its focus? Explain based on the text and your own experience.

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Allende’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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