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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 Campillo recommend that Don Jaime does?

2. What is the name of Don Adela's maid?

3. How does Don Jaime hurt the first man?

4. What is inside Don Jaime's new walking stick?

5. Why does Campillo say he is surprised that Don Jaime survived the attack?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the cafe owner tell Don Jaime about the current situation in Spain?

2. What is Campilo's opinion of Don Jaime and the way he has acted?

3. Why does Don Jaime decide to use a pistol in this section?

4. How do Don Jaime's feelings about Dona Adela change when he sees her dead body?

5. What dangers does Don Jaime find in Carceles' residence?

6. What does Don Jaime see at the morgue?

7. Why does Don Jaime decide not to flee?

8. What does Dona Adela say has been Don Jaime's problem throughout?

9. What happens at three in the morning in this section?

10. Why does Don Jaime ask the night watchman to send for a doctor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was happening during the 1860s? How is different is today's Spain to what it was then? How does the author make a story set in the 1860s relevant to modern readers?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss elements of the narrative structure; exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Don Jaime consider fencing an art? What would he think about the position of fencing in today's society?

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