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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 General Benjamin respect about Ishmael?

2. Who pays the most attention to the two men?

3. What does Cesar fall in love with?

4. If they really examined their situation, what would they all be feeling?

5. How is Roxane very similar to the rich men she surrounds herself with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the hostages and terrorists begin to make a schedule for their new lives?

2. Why does Father become upset with everyone's reaction to the garden?

3. To Roxane, what is true love?

4. What happens when Cesar begins to sing a capella?

5. What does Carmen realize the house has become for everyone and how do the people inside of it choose to live their lives?

6. Messner is jealous that everyone in the house gets to spend time with Roxane, but what does he slowly realize?

7. What happens when the South American country's army finally comes in to the home?

8. What activity do Mr. Hosokawa and General Benjiman participate in together and why do they enjoy each other's company?

9. How does Carmen feel about the late night that Carmen, Gen, Roxane, and Mr. Hosokawa all had?

10. What does Gen's kindness to Beatriz foreshadow?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Carmen and Beatriz are the only female terrorists, but they are very different from one another.

1. Compare and Contrast Carmen to Beatriz.

2. Why are so many more people taken with Carmen than Beatriz?

3. How does Beatriz try to become an integral part of the house?

Essay Topic 2

In the book, music has become everyone's common language.

Also language was created to connect human beings, how does it drastically divide them?

Had the people in the house not had Gen's help, would they have found another way to effectively communicate?

Essay Topic 3

How do all of the characters join together to create a disillusioned environment in the house?

Why are they all eager to protect the fake world they have created?

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