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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. Why does the bishop refuse to baptize Juan Francisco?

2. What is the name of Franco's apothecary general?

3. How long will Ella and Franco's trip to Buenos Ayres take them?

4. To whom is Princess Mathilde reportedly related to?

5. How does Ella pass her time in Buenos Ayres?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the U.S. government think of the Lopez dynasty?

2. What happens to Dr. Kennedy while on his trek across Lake Ipacarai?

3. What is the Obispo Cue?

4. Why does Ella decide to leave the steamer and continue her travels on horseback?

5. How does Ella respond to Marie after Marie suffers her terrible injury?

6. How do the Paraguayan forces conduct themselves in battle with Brazil?

7. How do Ella Lynch and Francisco Solano Lopez meet?

8. Who is Isabella de Braganza, and what is her relationship to Franco?

9. How do Franco's sisters treat Ella upon her arrival to Paraguay?

10. What happens when Franco and Ella try to have their son baptized?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the role that Rosaria plays in the upbringing of little Juan Francisco and use that experience to compare and contrast Rosaria's mothering techniques with Ella's mothering techniques to her firstborn son.

Essay Topic 2

Pancho grew up to be a man exactly like his father. Choose two examples of moments in his life when Pancho behaved in a way that Franco might have, and explain where Pancho learned his unemotional behaviors.

Essay Topic 3

Franco was arguably a terrible father to his children. Choose two of Franco's children and explain the negative effects that he had on their upbringing. How might the lives of the Lopez children have been altered if they were raised without Franco in their lives?

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