Waiting for Snow in Havana - Confessions of a Cuban Boy Test | Final Test - Hard

Carlos Eire
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 107 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Waiting for Snow in Havana - Confessions of a Cuban Boy Test | Final Test - Hard

Carlos Eire
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 107 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Approximately how old is the villain in Chapter 32?

2. Who throws the final breadfruit?

3. What does Carlos experience at night in Chapter 30?

4. What do the water tanks face?

5. To which organization do Tony and Carlos belong, until they realize it has too many rules?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Louis XVI react to the angry lady in Chapter 34, and how does he feel afterward?

2. Who makes the peashooters and out of which material, and why do the boys use peas?

3. Why is Fidel's milk consumption in Chapter 36 significant?

4. Describe the event that Carlos dreams of as thunder in Chapter 29.

5. How does El Loco become the hero of Chapter 32?

6. Describe the "niños bitongos."

7. At the beginning of Chapter 30, why does Carlos say, "Another day in Limbo"?

8. How does Carlos feel now as an adult about the time when he killed many lizards?

9. As discussed in Chapter 28, who are the Pioneers and what do they stand for?

10. According to Chapter 28, for what is Carlos's uncle Mario almost imprisoned?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Fernando fit the archetype of the hero? What other characters in the book also seem like heroes, and how do they compare and contrast with Fernando?

Essay Topic 2

How does the breadfruit war function as a catharsis in the novel? What are the events that build tension before and after the war? How would the scene have seemed different if it had been placed somewhere separate from those tensions?

Essay Topic 3

How does the Aquarium of the Revolution mitigate Carlos's highly negative picture of Communism? Is it enough to make the reader believe that Communism has good points? Explain.

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