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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 the General want to discuss with Mr. Hosokawa?

2. How does Roxane like her water?

3. How did Mr. Hosokawa learn how to become silent while moving through the house?

4. What does consummating a relationship mean?

5. When the General does not give the prisoners knives to cook, what does it show?

Short Essay Questions

1. Messner is jealous that everyone in the house gets to spend time with Roxane, but what does he slowly realize?

2. As Mr. Hosokawa has gotten used to being in the house, what has he gotten an appreciation for?

3. When the garua lifts, what happens to the people left in the house?

4. To Roxane, what is true love?

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

6. Why does Beatriz decide to be merciful towards Carmen and Gen?

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

8. Why does Father become upset with everyone's reaction to the garden?

9. What does Gen's kindness to Beatriz foreshadow?

10. What is a milestone for Carmen and Gen?

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

Many at-risk youths feel that the only way to survive their upbringing and their neighborhoods is to join a group or gang that will protect them.

- Why do they believe that they need protection where they live?

- How do gangs offer a fake sense of protection to its members?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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