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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 Roxane enjoy watching?

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

3. What do the other people in the house not suspect concerning new relationships?

4. Who catches Carmen and Gen in their mission to help Roxane?

5. When packaged food runs out, what is brought in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Carmen feel about the late night that Carmen, Gen, Roxane, and Mr. Hosokawa all had?

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

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

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

7. As each day passes on, what interesting things are happening between the hostages and terrorists?

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

9. What happens when Cesar begins to sing a capella?

10. After Carmen and Gen help Mr. Hosokawa and Roxane get together, what do they do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the book, music has become everyone's common language.

Also language was created to connect human beings, how does it drastically divide them?

Had the people in the house not had Gen's help, would they have found another way to effectively communicate?

Essay Topic 2

How do the characters in the novel put aside their differences to become friends?

What causes them to become so connected and in love with each other as the book progresses?

Essay Topic 3

What do the house and guara symbolize throughout the novel?

Does Patchett use a lot of symbolization in the novel? So you think it is effective for the story?

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