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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 does Mrs. Milagros do with the letter that arrives for Camilo in Part I, Chapter 4?
2. Who is La Chelo?
3. In Part I, Chapter 3, what does Mrs. Milagros claim happened six months ago?
4. How does Mrs. Milagros believe she should respond to Camilo's letters?
5. Who questions whether Camilo has a clear vision of Rosaura?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do we learn about Mrs. Milagros, the narrator of Part I, Chapter 1, from her own descriptions of other characters at the beginning of the text?
2. In the Part I, Chapter 2, how does Mrs. Milagros characterize Camilo as a boarding house guest?
3. What is David Reguel's response to Camilo's portrait of Rosaura?
4. Are there any indicators in Part I, Chapter 2 that Camilo might be involved in an investigation?
5. How does Mrs. Milagros describe Camilo settling into the boarding house?
6. Why does Camilo claim that he has no family? How does this affect his initial meeting with Mrs. Milagros?
7. Who is David Reguel, and how is he introduced in the book?
8. How does Mrs. Milagros respond to David Reguel's claim that he has a relationship with Rosaura that is independent of Camilo?
9. In Part I, Chapter 7, how does Mrs. Milagros come to read the contents of the final love letter Camilo receives?
10. What is Camilo's arrangement to work on the new restoration project described in Part I, Chapter 5?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
After reading all of the descriptions of Rosaura (by Mrs. Milagros, David, Camilo, Elsa, and Rosaura's own letter), what is the real story of Rosaura? Tell the story linearly, and be sure to include which narratives the different pieces of the story are pulled from.
Essay Topic 2
There are several recurring motifs in the text. What are these? Give specific examples from the text, and explain why you think that the author has chosen to repeat these ideas.
Essay Topic 3
Two little discussed characters in the novel are the maid Elsa and the man who kills Rosaura (Turco). Why do you believe that the author includes so little detail about these characters?
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