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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 Don Jaime hate to hear fencing be called?

2. What country did Don Jaime settle down in in 1850?

3. What does Don Luis invite Dona Adela to?

4. What does Don Luis want Don Jaime to do for him?

5. How does Don Jaime tell his students they must hold the grip on their foil?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Don Jaime become a fencing master?

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

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

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

5. How does Don Jaime react to the Civil Guard fighting the demonstrators in this section?

6. How does Don Luis offend Don Jaime in this section?

7. How does Dona make Don Jaime uncomfortable in this section?

8. Describe the room in which Don Jaime waits for Adela Otero.

9. What favor does Don Jaime agree to do for Don Luis in this section?

10. What is masculine about Adela Otero?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define the following terms;

1. Compound attack.

2. The short lunge.

3. Glissade.

4. Appel.

How does the author use the fencing terms as part of the narrative structure?

Essay Topic 2

Pick a character from the book and discuss his or her goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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