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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. Izzy describes referring to water as a mirror as which of the following?
2. Which instrument does Ruben play in Culebra?
3. What title does Izzy give to her suggested book?
4. What causes Bennie to cry out at Manny’s printing press?
5. To which of the following is Izzy compared?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reason does Sierra recall being told Haitians march in circles with coffins?
2. What description from Sierra prompts Robbie to note she encountered a throng haint?
3. How is Manny described when, as a corpuscule, he confronts Sierra at Coney Island?
4. In what condition does Sierra wake when Robbie knocks at her window after events at Club Kalfour?
5. Why does Jerome suggest the reference to the crossroads indicates the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Atlantic Avenue?
6. How is a normal night at El Mar described?
7. What occasioned the fight between Carmen and Lázaro?
8. What reason does Sierra give for being surprised at Robbie’s apology after events at Club Kalfour?
9. Why does Robbie note that shadowshaping magic is stronger for those who do their own artwork?
10. How does Sierra attempt to repel the corpuscules that confront her and her companions at Coney Island?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The novel repeatedly sites magic in the left hand and arm. Why might it do so, and what in the novel and in experience indicate as much?
Essay Topic 2
How would the novel be obliged to change if it were set elsewhere than it is? Select a location and explain what changes would be enforced upon the novel were it to be set in that location, rather than the location it currently occupied, and why those changes would be required by the new location.
Essay Topic 3
Explicate the significance of Bennie’s name.
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