Paula Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 118 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Paula Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 118 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 was the initial report about Allende's daughter?

2. What did Tio give Allende on her ninth birthday?

3. Which one of Allende's brothers ran away as a teenager and never returned?

4. What was the family joke about Allende?

5. With whom does Allende and her family live with after their return home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Allende and Ernesto both let go of Paula?

2. Why is Allende so grateful to have her mother with her in the hospital for a short while?

3. Who is Tio Ramon?

4. What is the setting for this section of the book?

5. What are the details of transporting Paula to San Francisco and what is her medical state during the transfer?

6. What definitive news does Allende receive about Paula's condition?

7. Explain some of Allende's activities in Chile that put her family in danger.

8. What topic does Allende turn to during the dark days of waiting at the hospital in Spain?

9. What was life like for the newly-married Allende and her first husband, Michael?

10. How does Allende's distress about Paula exhibit in dreams?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As a young girl, Allende loved to escape her world through reading and telling stories and this becomes an important theme throughout the book. Name at least two other themes in the journal entries and cite two examples for each to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What was the nature of Meme's spirituality? How did it exhibit? Do you think it was authentic? Or was it the vivid imagination of a gifted storyteller? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the irony of Allende's mother leaving her first husband because of scandal yet never marrying Tio Ramon with whom she lived as husband and wife. Why did she make these decisions and why is it a situation of irony? Can you cite any other examples of irony in Allende's story?

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