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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. Why isn't the President at the performance?

2. How does Roxane react to Mr. Hosokawa's apology?

3. How does Messner bring Roxane music?

4. As time goes on, what happens to the hostages and terrorists?

5. As the accompanist gets sicker, what does one of the hostages do for him?

Short Essay Questions

1. When two terrorists are revealed to be females what changes?

2. Why does Mr. Hosokawa decide to attend his own birthday party?

3. What type of mood is set for the beginning of the novel?

4. When the terrorists learn that the President is not at the birthday party, what happens?

5. What does Messner discover about the terrorists that have taken over Ruben's house?

6. How old do the terrorists seem to be?

7. How does Roxane begin to feel about Mr. Hosokawa?

8. Who is finally allowed to leave the house and why?

9. Why has Gen become incredibly busy during his stay at Ruben's house?

10. As the hostages get used to their new home, what do they learn about their surroundings?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare an inner city gang to that of the jungle terrorists.

How do the two groups work to recruit uneducated young people and promise them better lives?

Do they threaten their members to join and then never let them leave?

Essay Topic 2

As Messner visits the house for the last time, he warns Gen that the government has figured out a solution to the problem of the terrorists.

Why does Gen blatantly ignore the warning?

How could Gen have warned everyone and possibly saved Carmen's life?

Do you think everyone in the house is responsible for outcome of the siege?

Essay Topic 3

Carmen and Beatriz are the only female terrorists, but they are very different from one another.

1. Compare and Contrast Carmen to Beatriz.

2. Why are so many more people taken with Carmen than Beatriz?

3. How does Beatriz try to become an integral part of the house?

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