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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. How do other members of the house react to the new singer?

2. How does Hosokawa die?

3. What does Gen wish he could do with Carmen?

4. What does Victor claim is special about his love for Roxane?

5. What does Father ask Carmen to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Victor and everyone else in the house fall in love with Roxane?

2. Why does Gen panic at Messner's news?

3. What does General Benjamin realize about the way he handled the siege?

4. What does Carmen realize the house has become for everyone and how do the people inside of it choose to live their lives?

5. What prompts Beatriz to go to Father Arguedas?

6. What happens when all of the hostages learn that they may go outside?

7. Why does Ruben think he can ask Roxan to begin preparing food for the house?

8. How do the hostages and terrorists begin to make a schedule for their new lives?

9. What does Benjamin ask Gen to relay to his employer?

10. To Roxane, what is true love?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Patchett attempts to use foreshadowing a couple times throughout the book.

Do you believe that she effectively uses foreshadowing?

Give two examples of how she uses foreshadowing.

Essay Topic 2

As the guara settles over the house, it allows the hostages and terrorists to forget that they are on separate teams.

How is the guara a symbol for the unrealistic world that the hostages and terrorists now find themselves in?

Why does not being able to see outside of the house cause everyone to create their own worlds?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the novel Gen and Hosowaka switch places.

- Are they excited about this development?

- How does each man accept his new position in the hostage siege?

- How have they switched places? Is it in an emotional, physical, or business switch?

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