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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. Which of the following is an accurate description of the job of lector?

2. What does Levin's efforts to dissuade Anna's brother from selling off his ancestral land make Santiago realize?

3. Which character clashes with Juan Julian in scene 2?

4. What is arriving during act 1, scene 1?

5. What does Marela think reading the book might accomplish?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is bothering Ofelia and what does she say about it?

2. When does Conchita say that Palomo will understand?

3. How does Conchita describe her relationship with Juan Julian to Palomo?

4. What happens that causes Santiago and Ofelia to communicate with each other?

5. What information did the women have about the new lector?

6. What are Chechy and Ofelia arguing about?

7. What happens when Marela stays behind alone with Juan Julian?

8. Why does Conchita believe Santiago isn't already at the factory?

9. What character does Chechy identify with in the novel and why?

10. How is Juan Julian killed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What errors did Santiago make with his half-brother Chechy? Why do you think he made these errors? Do you think he will continue to make the same mistakes? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

How do you think Conchita would feel knowing that Juan Julian was also hitting on her sister Marela? What do you think she would have done? How would you have reacted? Why?

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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