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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. How many operations had Alicia had on her nose?

2. Who is Adrianita?

3. In what year did Partnoy return to her homeland?

4. What racial association does Alicia have for her nose?

5. Who had Alicia missed at the Little School by several days?

Short Essay Questions

1. When told to slap Hugo in the face, what does Alicia do instead?

2. Why do Alicia and Vasca find the plastic daisy so ludicrous?

3. After she is taken, what does Alicia realize about her flight to Mary and Nestor's house?

4. Why do the guards begin granting the prisoners privileges?

5. Why is Graciela assigned to walk around the table?

6. Who are Nestor and Mary?

7. How did Alicia's name figure into her political work?

8. Why isn't Alicia frightened when Chiche threatens to make soap out of her?

9. What action does the coup spur young Alicia to take?

10. What is a military coup?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Alicia attempt telepathy? How successful is she at her attempts? What was she hoping to accomplish? What does she fear her lack of telepathic ability means?

Essay Topic 2

How is living different than simply surviving? Is Partnoy's work a testament to this difference? Why or why not? What attempts does Partnoy make in the Little School to live and not simply to survive? Choose at least three instances in the work where she makes a conscious effort to exist beyond the status quo, despite her horrible surroundings.

Essay Topic 3

Why is it impossible for Alicia to think of the word "Senor" in the same way? How was the word forever changed for her at the Little School? Who else at the Little School hated the use of the word? Why were they forced to use the word so often? What was the irony in calling the guards "Senor"?

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