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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 does Pocha meet her new friend?

2. Pocha says Leonor cries like whom at her soap operas?

3. What is the name of the Navy admiral who gives Pantoja permission to use a ship?

4. At what port does the Special Services' pilot mission take place?

5. What crimes are soldiers committing in the Amazon jungle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems does Pocha tell Chichi she is having with Pantoja?

2. Why is Pantoja happy at the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. What do Pocha and Alicia spend their time doing?

4. On what conditions is the Special Service allowed to use a Navy boat?

5. Why does it take Pantoja and his crew a week to turn the Itaya depot into a suitable work space?

6. What is Dispatch Number 2?

7. What have Poncio and his devotees been working on?

8. What instructions does Air Force Colonel Andrés Sarmiento Segovia give about a hydroplane called Delilah?

9. What does the dispatch from Rear Admiral Carrillo, Chief of the River Forces of the Amazon to Captain Pantoja's superiors say?

10. Why does Pantoja begin receiving complaints from military posts?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of Mother Leonor's nightmare where a cockroach is eaten by a rat who is eaten by a lizard who is eaten by a jaguar who is crucified and whose remains are devoured by cockroaches? What does her dream seem to be a metaphor for? How might the dream relate to Pantoja and his situation with the army?

Essay Topic 2

Explore the character Sinchi and his role in the novel. How does he relate to other characters? What narrative function does he serve? What is the significance of his hypocrisy and his manipulative personality? What does the author seem to be saying through his character?

Essay Topic 3

Explore the use of secondary characters in the novel. Why do you think the author introduces them all so soon in the narrative? What purpose might this serve? What purpose do the secondary characters serve? Why are there so many of them? What point is the author trying to make?

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