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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. In Chapter 57, what does Horacio say he is confused about?
2. In Chapter 98, what does Horacio realize that Maga never needed to do?
3. Where does Horacio meet Pola for the first time in Chapter 76?
4. In Chapter 37, what does traveler do when Cuca and Talita gossip in his apartment?
5. What sin does Ossip accuse Horacio of in Chapter 31?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why are Etienne and Horacio shocked when they get to the old writers room in Chapter in 154?
2. Who is Pola, and how does she know Horacio?
3. What two meanings of the term hopscotch appear in the first book?
4. What does Horacio do before coming to Buenos Aires?
5. How does the Serpent Club's final gathering end?
6. Describe Manolo and Talia Traveler's lives in Buenos Aires.
7. How is Traveler affected by Horacio in this section?
8. How does Horacio settle in Buenos Aires in this section?
9. What is revolutionary about Morelli's forthcoming book?
10. What eerie, somewhat mystical, harbinger comes to Pola in Chapter 64?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
The fictional guru of Cortazar's Hopscotch is the iconoclast writer Morelli. Morelli at once represents a lofty literary ideal and stands in for Cortazar himself. Write an essay about the character of Morelli, focusing on three parts:
Part 1) Most of Morelli's texts have to do with destroying old literary conventions rather than creating new ones. What conventions does he most pointedly insist be destroyed? Why does he dislike them so intently? How does he think they mar literature?
Part 2) Morelli speaks often in the novel about literature being a surrogate experience. What does this mean? How does Morelli want the reader to relate to the novel? What particularly provocative ideas does Morelli have for achieving this?
Part 3) How is Morelli a fictional stand-in for Julio Cortazar? How are Cortazar's ideas similar to Morelli's? To what extent is Morelli, when the reader meets him in the expendable chapters, writing the novel HOPSCOTCH?
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