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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. Why does Don Jaime decide to find Carceles before going to the police?

2. What is the first thing Don Jaime does when Dona Adela enters the room?

3. What does Don Adela say the woman did when she broke up with her lover?

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

5. What does Campilo ask is Don Luis ever discussed with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Carceles react to reading the file?

2. Summarize this section.

3. Why did Dona Adela kill Don Luis?

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

5. What can Don Jaime understand from the file?

6. Why does Dona Adela say Don Jaime didn't understand the file?

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

8. In what way is Don Jaime already deeply involved in the murder case?

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

10. What does Don Jaime see at the morgue?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

How does Don Jaime's obsession with fencing shield him from every day life? In what ways is this obsession both a strength and weakness?

Essay Topic 3

What were the role of women in 1860s Spain? In what way is the feminism discourse relate to contemporary issues?

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