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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. After the entire night tied up, what is Benja finally allowed to do?

2. What excuse do the guards give for putting men in dresses?

3. Who is Raul?

4. From what condition did most of the prisoners suffer?

5. When she was captured, what did the guards do to Graciela?

Short Essay Questions

1. After waking from a nap about her daughter, what does Alicia discover about herself?

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

3. What is the "little train"?

4. Why are Argentine youth suppressed after the military takes over rule of the country?

5. What kind of God does Alicia want to believe in?

6. How does Alicia counteract her unwanted nickname?

7. Why must Alicia stop trying telepathy?

8. What is Alicia's main goal for attempting telepathy?

9. How does Graciela feel about her unborn child?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Alicia's nose.

1) As a young girl, how did Alicia feel about her nose?

2) What problems has she historically had with her nose?

3) How does her nose become a blessing at the Little School?

4) Ultimately, how do Alicia and her nose reconcile?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the different uses for bread at the Little School?

1) What does bread symbolize?

2) How do the prisoners use bread amongst themselves?

3) Why is bread so important to them?

Essay Topic 3

Water is used throughout the text. What does water typically symbolize? What does it symbolize for Alicia? How does water play into everyday life at the Little School? Why isn't Alicia bothered by the Chinese water torture? Choose at least three instances in the work involving water. Compare and contract the role of water throughout the work.

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