View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the workers discussing as their workday ends?

2. How do the women feel around Juan Julian?

3. What does the ritual Conchita describes entail?

4. What does Santiago reveal he has been doing in secret?

5. What does Juan Julian compare Tampa to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the old lector, Teodoro?

2. What announcement does Santiago make?

3. How doe the workers respond to Juan Julian's reading?

4. How is Juan Julian killed?

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

6. What are Ofelia, Marela and Concit waiting for at the harbor?

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

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

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

10. What do Conchita and Palomo debate about and what in the novel does she compare her husband's feelings about?

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

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 460 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample