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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 Gen and Carmen try to make rules about?

2. How does Roxane think love works?

3. What does Roxane want Gen and Carmen to help her with?

4. What is Gen astonished by in Carmen?

5. When Gen hears the worrisome news that something bad will happen, what does he do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a milestone for Carmen and Gen?

2. What activity do Mr. Hosokawa and General Benjiman participate in together and why do they enjoy each other's company?

3. Who discovers that Roxane and Mr. Hosokawa are in love with one another?

4. What happens when the South American country's army finally comes in to the home?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

The relationship between employers and employees is not universal and truly based on the people involved in the relationship.

- How would you characterize Gen and Hosowaka's relationship at the beginning of the novel?

- By the end of the novel, what has happened to their relationship? Have they gotten closer to one another?

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