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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 strange about the doll?

2. What does Dona Adela de Otero want from Don Jaime?

3. What are members of the Progresso discussion group worried about?

4. Why does Don Jaime think that Dona Adela hurries away when she sees him?

5. What rank did Don Jaime reach in the army?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Don Jaime's opinion on politics?

2. What does Don Jaime closing the shutters on the demonstrators say about how he likes to live his life?

3. Why does Don Luis say he admires Don Jaime?

4. How does Adela Otero convince her to fence?

5. What is the only thing that Don Jaime knows about Dona Adela's private life?

6. What information does Don Jaime give Dona Adela about his life in fencing?

7. What is Don Jaime's opinion on God?

8. What does Don Jaime about his loneliness?

9. How did Don Jaime become a fencing master?

10. Why does Don Jaime think martial war has been declared?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What difference does it make to the ideas that the author is trying to convey that he sets the story in the 1860s rather than contemporary society? What do you think his reason was for doing this? Could he convey the same point just as effectively within a contemporary setting?

Essay Topic 2

Away from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 3

How did Don Jaime become a fencing master? What has fencing taught Don Jaime about life?

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