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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 happens at three in the morning?

2. What interrupts Carceles and Don Jaime in from talking?

3. Why does Don Jaime decide not to hand in Don Jaime's file to the police?

4. What does Don Jaime vow to do in chapter eleven?

5. What does Don Jaime remember happened when he picked up the file?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Dona Adela tell Don Jaime about her ex-lover?

4. What can Don Jaime understand from the file?

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

6. Summarize this section.

7. How does Carceles react to reading the file?

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

9. How does Don Jaime prepare for the arrival of his attackers?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the story express about Spanish society during the 1860s? How does the author use the setting to also express contemporary concerns?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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