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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. Why does Etienne get angry at Babs in Chapter 96?
2. What do Talita and Traveler hear outside their window at the end of Chapter 45?
3. Why does Horacio decide to move in with Gekrepten in Chapter 78?
4. Which character offers a rambling defense of Morelli's methods in Chapter 99?
5. What is the topic of the letter in the Observer in Chapter 146?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Manolo and Talia Traveler's lives in Buenos Aires.
2. What two meanings of the term hopscotch appear in the first book?
3. What do Ronald and Etienne discuss in Chapter 142?
4. How is Traveler affected by Horacio in this section?
5. What does Horacio do before coming to Buenos Aires?
6. What indiscretion does Horacio commit in Chapter 54?
7. What is Horacio's state of mind in this section?
8. Professionally, what changes for Traveler, Horacio and Talita in this section?
9. How do Traveler and Horacio put Talita in a ridiculous position in Chapter 41?
10. How does the Serpent Club's final gathering end?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The second book of HOPSCOTCH deals primarily with the pained triangle that develops between the Travelers and Horacio. Write an essay about this triangle, assessing what each participant gains and risks from it. How does Manolo Traveler begin to deteriorate mentally and emotionally after Horacio arrives in Buenos Aires? Discuss why this is, and why he insists on keeping Horatio close. How is Talita affected by this codependency and how does this manifest itself in the events of Book 2? In summation, to what climax does all the fretting of this triangle lead?
Essay Topic 2
The novel of HOPSCOTCH consists of three books: two main narrative books and one compilation of chapters sometimes called "expendable." Write an essay about these expendable chapters, what they contain, and how reading them is essential to understanding the full narrative of the novel. Focus on three components of the story that only appear in the third book. What does having this information do to inform what is told in the first two books? Which characters does it illuminate? Why do you think this only exists in expendable chapters?
Part 1) The affair with Pola.
Part 2) Morelliana
Part 3) The hospital meeting with Morelli
Essay Topic 3
An emotional change occurs in Horacio between the death of Rocamadour and Horacio's arrival in Buenos Aires. He tells Ossip he wants anonymity and develops a plan for his relationship with the Travelers. Write an essay about this shift from sensation to observation in Horacio. What does he want from Manu and Talita, and how does he go about getting it? Whom does he have to use in the process? Discuss how this attempt at dispassion eventually pushes him into a sort of madness. What is Cortazar saying about the need to express emotion, no matter how painful?
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