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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. Where did Matt get his ideas about slow people?

2. Who tells Matt he was harvested from a cow?

3. Who is Maria arranged to marry?

4. How many boys go with Matt to San Luis?

5. What do the Keepers take every night?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Matt get across the border?

2. What surprising information about Maria does Matt learn while reading A History of Opium?

3. How was Fidelito able to get away from the Keepers?

4. What causes Matt to finally admit something wrong about himself to Jorge?

5. Why is El Patron not able to use Matt's heart?

6. What causes a revolt of the boys on Jorge?

7. Why does Matt strike up a friendship with Chacho and Fidelito?

8. What happens to Celia after El Patron's death?

9. When does Matt's tattoo get seen at the factory?

10. How does Matt say Maria could get out of her arranged marriage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 2

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affect the course of the plot. Why might Robert Jordan have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

Essay Topic 3

What is one of the analogies used by the Keepers, and how is it accepted by the Lost Boys? Why do you think the Keepers use these analogies to teach the Lost Boys?

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