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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 cocktail does Lola order with Frank’s contact at the U.S. embassy?

2. Which of the following cakes does Leticia serve Anita?

3. What is the name of Leticia’s parrot?

4. What is the name of Selena’s mother?

5. For what profession is Selena’s mother trained?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Selena note confusion at her erstwhile fiancé’s love for her?

2. Why does Selena note being invested in Anita’s case?

3. When does Anita note that invisibility is not useful?

4. Why is Gómez isolated in prison?

5. Why does Anita note that invisibility is useful?

6. Why does Leticia buy decaf coffee for her employer?

7. Why does Gómez invite Selena in?

8. What does Samuel recall that prompts him to help Anita?

9. Why does Samuel note Anita could become a concert pianist?

10. How does Selena react to the autopsies of those exhumed from the mass grave in El Salvador?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assuming that The Wind Knows My Name should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the ethics of Leticia's review of Nadine's diaries. Is she right to undertake the project? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the appearance of the novel’s title in the text, when Anita comments “The wind knows my name” (163).

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