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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. Where does Dona Maria's husband work?
2. What kind of crop does one character talk about, saying if they do well with it he will buy a car in "When We Arrive"?
3. What covers the protagonist's walls in his bedroom in "First Communion"?
4. What color does the portrait salesman suggest making the uniform in "The Portrait"?
5. Dona Chona says of her children in "The Little Burnt Victims" that the older they get the more what they become?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where are the photographs discovered by the children in "The Portrait"? What does this discovery mean?
2. Where do the children stay when the Garcias go to work in "The Little Burnt Victims"? Why?
3. Why does one of the workers hope to get a job in Minneapolis in "When We Arrive"?
4. What has caused the accident in "A Little Before Six..."? How many are killed as a result of the accident?
5. What preparations are described in "It Was a Beautiful Wedding Day..."?
6. Who do the characters surmise probably turned Figueroa in, in "They Let Figueroa Out..."?
7. What does the narrator observe at the cleaners in "First Communion"?
8. Who is Ramiro and what role does he play in the plot of "The Night the Lights Went Out"?
9. How does one character describe the clerk's response when he ordered hamburgers in "When We Arrive"? Why did the clerk have this response?
10. What is remarked about the protagonist as he walks away in "Under the House"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is swindled by the portrait dealer in "The Portrait"? Why is this so concerning for this character? How does he go about achieving retribution for his having been swindled?
Essay Topic 2
Why does the protagonist of "A Silvery Night" hope to summon the devil? How does he go about doing so? What does he make of the events after he summons the devil?
Essay Topic 3
What has happened to the narrator's father and brother in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"? Why? Why does the narrator feel responsible? What leads to the recovery of the father and brother?
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