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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. How does Juan describe Don Diego's funeral?

2. What is Bartolomy's last name?

3. How does Diego feel about Olivares?

4. What is the name of the King's favorite dog?

5. What does Bartolomy say about the law against slaves painting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the King do after Juan helps his favorite dog, and how does Juan feel about this?

2. What has Juan just painted when he talks to Bartolomy, and what does Bartolomy say about this?

3. How does Lolis feel about being a slave?

4. What does Don Diego do to save Juan when his painting is discovered by the King?

5. What happens when Lolis is asked to be Juan's wife?

6. Where does Don Diego send most of his apprentices, and why?

7. How does Juan get the Itallian nobles to recognize Don Diego's talent?

8. What is Juan worried will be found while he is in Northern Spain with Don Diego, and what is done about this?

9. What does Diego say during one of the King's sittings that pleases the King?

10. What does the King do while he sits for his portraits?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Honor was something that many of the main characters were striving for in this book. Who was most affected by this pursuit, and how did it change the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances influence that character's involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 3

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affected the course of the plot. Why might Elizabeth Trevino have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

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