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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 do Lucinda and Anita do that night?
2. Who is at the Italian Embassy when Anita and her mother arrive there?
3. What concerns Anita's mother when she receives a call from the school?
4. What does Anita's mother say on the second Sunday that they are in hiding?
5. What do the Washburns decide to offer concerning Lucinda?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who are arrested in town and why?
2. What does Papi and the Washburns decide to do about Lucinda?
3. What are Mami and Anita waiting for and how has Pupo failed the rebels?
4. What does Anita overhear her father say about the Washburns?
5. What do the children do after the American school is closed and how do they get to school?
6. How does Chucha help Anita and what does Chucha tell her?
7. Where do soldiers find El Jefe's body and who do they arrest and what do they say about Papi and Tio Toni?
8. What does Papi say he wants for his children?
9. What does Anita decide about men and why?
10. What does Anita learn about Chucha?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. How do you define loyalty? Is the ability and desire to be loyal an admirable trait in humans? Why or why not? What are the advantages and disadvantages of being loyal to a person? A cause? A country? An idea? What do you think about blind loyalty; that is, what to do think of those who are loyal to something no matter what they learn about that person, thing, ideal, country, etc.
2. Discuss and analyze why you think Mr. Washburn remains loyal to Anita's family. Is it warranted? Wise? Earned? What other instances of loyalty occur in "Before We Were Free"? Is El Jefe's son's loyalty to his father admirable?
3. What other admirable traits besides loyalty are depicted in "Before We Were Free"? Discuss fully two of those traits with specific examples.
Essay Topic 2
"Before We Were Free" belongs to the young-adult-novel genre. Discuss the following:
1. Define the literary term "genre" and give examples of three other genres in addition to the young-adult-novel genre.
2. Discuss two reasons that it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons that it might be disadvantageous to do so.
3. What do you think is the difference between a young-adult novel and a historical mystery novel ?
Essay Topic 3
There are a number of interesting questions raised by "Before We Were Free."
1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?
2. Name one idea or concept you think may have been a part of the Alvarez's agenda. Analyze that idea as it appears throughout the book and discuss Alvarez's probable agenda concerning that idea.
3. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?
4. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?
5. Research the life of Julia Alvarez to see if her life may have influenced her writing and, if so, where and how?
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