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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 is Benja positioned in their bunk room?
2. As a teenager, with what political movement was Partnoy involved?
3. When Abuelo catches Alicia talking, what does Chiche threaten to do?
4. What worries Alicia the day after her experiment as she wakes up?
5. Through her telepathy experiment, of what fact is Alicia certain, though she cannot know?
Short Essay Questions
1. Before the Little School, what problems did Alicia have with her nose?
2. What thought causes Alicia to stop being amused at Patichoti's jokes?
3. Later, what does Alicia learn about the usefulness of aliases?
4. Why is Alicia surprised when the military police come for her?
5. What action does the coup spur young Alicia to take?
6. Why isn't Alicia frightened when Chiche threatens to make soap out of her?
7. What does Alicia do to try and comfort Benja?
8. What kind of God does Alicia want to believe in?
9. Who are Nestor and Mary?
10. How did Alicia's name figure into her political work?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Discuss Alicia's tooth.
1) As a young girl, how did Alicia damage her tooth? What was her mother's reaction?
2) Upon receiving a replacement tooth, how did Alicia's life change?
3) What happens to her tooth at the Little School?
4) What do the tooth and the matchbox mean to Alicia?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the chapters written form Alicia's perspective and the chapter written from Graciela's perspective. How are they similar? How do they differ? Be sure to examine:
1) Syntax.
2) Rhythm.
3) Content.
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