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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 does Juan Julian say the difference between the two places boils down to?

2. What does Chechy tell Ofelia about?

3. Which character is newly arrived?

4. What does Juan Julian suggest Conchita do with her cutting?

5. What does Marela eventually do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens with the first Anna Karenina cigar?

2. Which two events create the settings fro the first scene in act one?

3. What does Conchita chide Palomo about?

4. Whose side of the issue does Santiago take and how does he solve it?

5. How is information from the book heard while Juan Julian and Conchita make love?

6. What is Marela still wearing three days after the tragedy?

7. What does Marela indicate is the responsibility of the living?

8. What announcement does Santiago make?

9. What does Chechy tell Ofelia about her husband and how does she react?

10. Why have Palomo and Conchita come to the factory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you believe about superstitions? Do you think Marela was right to follow her own superstition about Juan Julian's spirit? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What part does nature play in this novel? Do you think it is an important theme? Why or why not? What about the role of tradition? Which is more important? Why do you feel this way?

Essay Topic 3

In the story, the author quotes from the book "What would be the sense of killing a man in order to define one's own relations with a woman..." Why do you think Karenin found this to be a senseless act? Why do you think Chechy did not find this to be a senseless act?

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