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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 does Messner feel sorry for the group?

2. When does the garua finally lift?

3. In this chapter, who wants to declare his love for Roxane?

4. What does Roxane enjoy watching?

5. How does Roxane think love works?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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 does Gen's kindness to Beatriz foreshadow?

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

8. General Benjamin allows some of his soldiers to learn how to cook, what does this show about him?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Genders roles are often specific to certain cultures. When Ruben asks Roxane to cook, he is assuming that in American culture, women are in charge of domestic rituals. While this is true to an extent, gender roles are not universal. Roxane is a wealthy performer who is used to being waited on.

- How does Ruben's culture feel women should behave? Is their role to be subservient to men or to have kitchen duties?

- What are typical roles that fall to women in American society?

- How do the two gender stereotypes align?

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

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?

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