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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. Where does Tomas meet Isabel in Chapter Seventeen?

2. What does not feel as precious to Tomas any longer in Chapter Nineteen?

3. What kind of cups do Isabel and Tomas drink out of in Chapter Twelve?

4. What does Anibal call the injections Tomas gives to the prisoners?

5. Where was The School of the Americas once located?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Seventeen, why is Pichuca very worried?

2. Why does Tomas ask Isabel to arrange for the Priests's killing?

3. What does Tomas do in Chapter Seventeen that is a great risk to himself?

4. In Chapter 11, what does Tomas tell Isabel about his first few weeks at Automotores?

5. What do Tomas's co-workers at Automotores call him, and why?

6. What substance does Tomas routinely administer by injection to prisoners, and why?

7. What job does the Colonel end up arranging for Tomas?

8. What happens when Tomas's mother visits in Chapter 11?

9. What would happen to prisoners who needed a defibrillator if Tomas was on his days off?

10. Why does Triste tell Tomas to speak to Gordo in Chapter Twelve?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Tomas end up feeling about his own survival and the fact of his complicity in the government's/junta's torture regime? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Loedel describe Tomas's own experience of torture, and how does this description differ from his earlier renderings of the torturing of prisoners? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay discussing the symbolic significance of chess in Tomas's and the Colonel's relationship.

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