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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 is Juan's singing voice like?

2. How does Juan feel about the mayordomo who lives near Juan?

3. What is a mayordomo?

4. How does the Pampas show color?

5. What type of meat do gauchos eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do gauchos eat when they get together?

2. Describe what Juan is constructing.

3. What does the Vaquero say when he arrives at the Pizzettis' home?

4. What does the mayordomo know and what does he not yet know?

5. Why are people hurrying home from church?

6. Describe Armando's second attempt at lassoing Chúcaro.

7. What is the poster of a man that is hung in Juan's hut?

8. What is Armando doing when Pedro brings Chúcaro to the corral?

9. How does Chúcaro react to being left in the corral by Pedro and what reassures the horse?

10. What does the mayordomo inspire in most people, and how does Juan react to him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There is no such thing as an average estanciero/patrón. Some are good and some are bad; some are wise and others foolish. Señor Muñez is a good man, but he had lived an uncomplicated life of luxury long into his adulthood until locusts destroyed much of his family's fortune.

1. Discuss what you think the difference would be in workers who have a good estanciero as opposed to one who has a bad one. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. How do you think Senor Munez's early life of living in luxury affects him as to dealing with the poor workers on his ranches? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss the changes that might happen to a very wealthy person who loses a lot of his/her fortune and how one might cope with such a loss. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Chucaro belongs to the children's book novel genre. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the children's book novel genre.

2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.

3. What do you think is the difference between a children's book novel and a historical novel mystery?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Chucaro, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements in Chucaro. (The subplots may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not?

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