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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 does Felipe use to look at the plants Aura is growing in Chapter 4?

2. What does Felipe suspect about Aura at the end of breakfast in Chapter 3?

3. Why does Felipe want the job of finishing the General’s memoirs to last as long as possible?

4. What does Consuelo say Aura is growing on the patio?

5. What does Aura use to tell Felipe that breakfast is ready in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What disturbs Felipe about himself while he eats dinner alone in Chapter 4?

2. How does the narrator describe Aura’s ringing of the black bell in Chapter 3?

3. What does Felipe think Aura’s role is?

4. What is unusual about Aura and Consuelo’s departure from Aura’s room at the end of Chapter 4?

5. Describe the dream Felipe has in Chapter 4.

6. What does Felipe see Consuelo doing when he peeks in at her after leaving her room in Chapter 3?

7. What is the significance of the wafer Aura gives Felipe in Chapter 4?

8. Describe the scene that leads to Felipe’s realization that Aura and Consuelo are connected.

9. What is different about Aura when Felipe goes to her in Chapter 4? Why?

10. What is strange about the lunch Felipe shares with Aura and Consuelo in Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the timeline of the plot of Aura.

Essay Topic 2

Define suspense. How is it used in literature? How is it identified? Provide at least two examples of suspense in Aura. How are these examples resolved by the end of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Define allusion. What is a literary allusion? How is it identified in literature? Identify and explain at least two allusions in Aura.

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