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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. In what neighborhood had Anita’s mother worked?

2. In what month had Selena’s grandmother had a vision of Anita’s mother?

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

4. What is the name of Samuel’s grandson?

5. At which of the following are the bodies from the mass grave in El Salvador examined?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Gómez invite Selena in?

2. What accident befell Anita and her sister?

3. What history does Leticia find for Samuel’s home?

4. Why does Frank bring port with him when he first visits the Durán home?

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

6. Why does Samuel remark that Anita will never get over the trauma she has experienced?

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

8. How does Anita’s father die?

9. What does Leticia note as an early sign of the fall of Samuel’s grandson?

10. Why does Selena remark Anita has been extended some leniency by the judge hearing her case?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of The Wind Knows My Name do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Sources attest to the presence of The Wind Knows My Name on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Anita’s blindness receives substantial attention throughout the novel, but blindness is not the only condition of disability to exist. How would the novel differ if Anita were otherwise disabled than she is? What in the novel suggests as much, and how?

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