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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 do during the weekend?
2. What does Don Jaime hate to hear fencing be called?
3. Why does Don Jaime think that Dona Adela hurries away when she sees him?
4. What style has Dona Adela been taught in?
5. What does Don Jaime think the artifacts in his fencing gallery are symbols of?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Don Luis offend Don Jaime in this section?
2. How does Don Jaime react to the Civil Guard fighting the demonstrators in this section?
3. What do the Cafe Progresso members think about the prospect of civil war?
4. Why is Don Jaime struggling with what he calls the Holy Grail?
5. What does Don Jaime about his loneliness?
6. What does Don Jaime closing the shutters on the demonstrators say about how he likes to live his life?
7. What happens when Adela starts seeing Don Luis?
8. What is masculine about Adela Otero?
9. Why does Don Luis say he admires Don Jaime?
10. How does Don Jaime anger Dona Adela during the first bout?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare Don Jaime's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the he is at the end.
1. What did Don Jaime hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?
2. What events changes Don Jaime ideas about life?
3. How has Don Jaime's character changed by the end of the book?
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
Why does Dona Adela kill Don Luis? What has happened in her life for her to become such a cold person? How does the author slowly unfold her as this cold, vindictive character? what meaning does her character bring to the story?
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