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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 is General Barrios' hobby?

2. What does Viola think is all the Italian workers and Nostromo care about?

3. Who does Sulaco side with during the fighting?

4. Which character in this chapter is said to be always deeply in debt?

5. What is Joseph Mitchell's rank?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Gould show a concern for her husband and his mine in Chapter 6, Part 2?

2. How do Antonia and Decoud's opinion on the revolution differ?

3. Why is Ribiera important to the industrialists?

4. Describe the Gould family.

5. What is the chairman trying to do to build his railway?

6. What does Ribiera symbolize to the nation of Costaguana?

7. In what way does this chapter highlight Ribiera's weaknesses?

8. Describe General Barrios.

9. Describe the Isabel Islands.

10. Describe Martin Decoud.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at South American politics. How far reaching do the students think politics are in South American society? Does it affect even Decoud and Antonia's love life? Choose a character in the novel and discuss how politics affects and restricts his/her decisions.

Essay Topic 2

Compare the characters of Antonia and Decoud.

1) In what way are their morals different?

2) What is their relationship to each other?

3) Do you think they are the perfect match?

Essay Topic 3

Look at the locations Conrad uses in the novel.

1) What effect does the location Conrad uses have on the tone of the book?

2) Pick one location and think in what way this location affects the actions of the characters?

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