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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 animal does Franco ride in the military because it sits him higher than the rest of the troops?
2. Which of the following is NOT a name given to Ella and Franco's sons?
3. What does Ella decide to name her newborn son?
4. What is the nationality of Dimitri, Ella's live-in man?
5. What project does Franco undertake with French colonists on his land?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Ella Lynch and Francisco Solano Lopez meet?
2. What work does Dr. Mastermind do while the Paraguayan forces are at battle with Brazil?
3. Who is Frederick Mastermind?
4. How does Pancho treat his younger brother Carlos while they are playing in the garden?
5. Why does Ella decide to leave the steamer and continue her travels on horseback?
6. Who is Carmencita, and what is her relationship to Franco?
7. Who is Isabella de Braganza, and what is her relationship to Franco?
8. How is Juan Francisco welcomed into the world?
9. How does Ella respond to Marie after Marie suffers her terrible injury?
10. What is life like for Ella and Dimitri before he leaves to fight in the war?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Dr. Henry Kennedy and explain the impact that he had on Ella's life. How does his short presence in the novel change the relationship that Ella has with Franco?
Essay Topic 2
Mathilde, Ella's horse, is a powerful symbol in Ella's life. Explain the way that Ella's horse earned its name and what the relationship to the horse means to Ella.
Essay Topic 3
During the war with Brazil, Franco acts very selfishly in regards to the people of his land. Choose two examples of times that Franco puts himself before the people of his land, and explain how these decisions wreaked havoc on the people and land that he was supposed to be protecting.
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