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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 holiday is the Nieto family celebrating at the beginning of Chapter 24?
2. What does Carlos see in Chapter 1 that reminds him of the maid's breasts?
3. According to Chapter 4, which people always read dirty magazines?
4. In which city does chapter 21 open?
5. In the beginning of Chapter 6, whom does Carlos imagine at the window?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of the mamey pit to Carlos?
2. What happens when the police stop Fernando's car in Chapter 26?
3. According to Chapter 22, with what are the boys sick and how do they handle it?
4. Summarize the contents of the Cuban history lesson the boys receive at the beginning of Chapter 4.
5. How do Louis XVI's staff members treat him and his family? Why?
6. Why does Carlos wish he could have been a Viking?
7. With regard to Fernando's prison term, what does "rehabilitation" mean?
8. What are the instructions that come with receiving a key to the family pantheon?
9. Why does Louis XVI wish he could have afforded to be Pilate in the church murals?
10. In Chapter 20, how does Louis XVI deal with the man at the door?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the idea of death in this book. What are the various moments that seem like a type of death? What are the moments that Carlos himself identifies as a death? Do you think death is a good symbol for those events, or do you think something else could more appropriately have symbolized them? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the irony inherent within the character El Loco as well as his role throughout the book. What does he symbolize? Why?
Essay Topic 3
How does Fernando fit the archetype of the hero? What other characters in the book also seem like heroes, and how do they compare and contrast with Fernando?
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