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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 the name of Carlos's best friend in Chapter 27?

2. What is the place where Carlos lives mentally while he waits to be sent to the United States?

3. In his speeches, what does Fidel call the children who are being exiled to the United States?

4. Carlos wishes that what animal would eat Ernesto?

5. As Chapter 37 discusses, with what object does Carlos work when he takes a summer job at Marie Antoinette's factory?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Aquarium of the Revolution.

2. As discussed in Chapter 37, why does Carlos feel shame about his upbringing?

3. Describe the young man who accosts Carlos and Jorge in Chapter 32.

4. Describe the Communist propaganda that Carlos hears in Chapter 38.

5. Describe Filo's situation in the auditorium, as Carlos relates in Chapter 29.

6. At the beginning of Chapter 30, why does Carlos say, "Another day in Limbo"?

7. How does El Loco become the hero of Chapter 32?

8. According to Chapter 27, how would Plato have reacted to Carlos's female teacher? How would Kant have reacted?

9. Describe Carlos's first death.

10. Who makes the peashooters and out of which material, and why do the boys use peas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the themes of fear and risk-taking and how the two interact with each other in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

What is the relationship between church and state in Communist Cuba, as described in this book?

Essay Topic 3

How does the Aquarium of the Revolution mitigate Carlos's highly negative picture of Communism? Is it enough to make the reader believe that Communism has good points? Explain.

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