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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 are often the sites where semi-pagan rituals are carried out?

2. What happened to Teodoro?

3. Which character in the story does Santiago identify with?

4. Which of the following characters works late at the factory?

5. What did the the shy boy help Conchita carry out?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Marela wearing when she enters the factory?

2. What is Chechy's suggestion to solve Palomo's problem?

3. Why does Marela say that crying would be wrong?

4. What do Chechy and Palomo question Juan Julian about?

5. What happens with the first Anna Karenina cigar?

6. What does Juan Julian reveal when Conchita asks him why he chose to read Anna Karenina?

7. What would be an accurate description of Santiago and Chechy as they are first introduced?

8. What and why does Santiago carve something into the sole of his half-brother's shoe?

9. What does Juan Julian say he would like to learn?

10. What happened to the old lector, Teodoro?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Marela talked about how the living must look after the dead so that they can count on them to help the living when they die cross over, how did you respond to her thoughts? Do you agree or disagree with her? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

In what way does Cruz show that the sworn enemy of lectors turn into a lector? Do you believe this is accurate? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

How does the author intertwine the plot from the novel the lector is reading into the plot of the play? Do you feel this is done successfully? Why or why not?

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