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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 feeling overcomes Marcelo at the end of Part 3, Chapter 3?

2. How does Marcelo obtain food in Part 2, Chapter 6?

3. What is Marcelo's castle used for at the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 6?

4. Who does Marcelo attempt to befriend at the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 2?

5. In Part 3, Chapter 3, what do the soldiers use to make their homes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marcelo feel at the end of Part 3, Chapter 3?

2. Describe Marcelo's dinner with the Count in Part 2, Chapter 5.

3. In Part 2, Chapter 5, where is Marcelo taken, and why? What does he see?

4. Describe Chichi's actions at the end of Part 3, Chapter 1.

5. In Part 3, Chapter 2, who does Marcelo see, and what does he learn about this person?

6. Describe the reunion between Marcelo and Julio in Part 3, Chapter 3.

7. What is the significance of Pau, and how does this city make Julio feel?

8. Who does Julio find Marguerite with, and what does she confess about this person?

9. Why does Marcelo visit Julio's studio in Part 3, Chapter 2?

10. At the end of Part 3, Chapter 2, what does Senator Lacour offer Marcelo, and how does Marcelo react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the novel's point of view enhance and inhibit the novel? How would the novel be different if an alternate point of view were used?

Essay Topic 2

How do the lives of the characters change due to the war?

Essay Topic 3

How is foreshadowing used in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"? Choose one major instance of foreshadowing and follow it through the book, concluding with the resolution of the foreshadowing.

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