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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 do the prisoners have to do after they brush their teeth?
2. What does Alicia's mother brag that her children do?
3. With whom was Graciela arrested?
4. What happens to Alicia after she is caught talking?
5. Why is Hugo suffering from stomach cramps?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why are Alicia and her husband placed side by side?
2. What does Death take from the old man because She has an overcrowded carriage?
3. What does water do for Alicia in Beauty Treatment?
4. While interrogating Alicia's husband, what do the guards think about the stream poem?
5. What happened to Alicia the first time she called for a "Senor"?
6. Why was Alicia suspicious of a newspaper report that surfaced claiming two couples were killed in a confrontation with the military in their area?
7. After the military visitor comes, where do the prisoners have to brush their teeth?
8. What happens to Alicia when the raindrop falls on her forehead?
9. How does she feel while being punished by Peine?
10. Why were high school students taken prisoner at the Little School?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the denim jacket.
1) Where does the jacket come from?
2) Why is Alicia both excited and horrified by the jacket?
3) What does the jacket symbolize?
4) Why does Alicia feel less pain when beaten with the jacket on?
Essay Topic 2
Though the prisoners are forced to endure physical torture, they must also endure psychological torture. How is psychological torture different from physical torture? Choose two instances of psychological torture to discuss. How effective is the psychological torture at the Little School? How do the prisoners deal with it?
Essay Topic 3
Examine Alicia's poem about the stream.
1) What symbolism or metaphor is present in the poem?
2) Why does Alicia choose to recite the poem when she does?
3) Why do you think the guards are convince the poem is something subversive?
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