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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. Who does Ella sue in the Parisian courts?

2. When Ella returns to Paris, where does she hear that Princess Mathilde is living?

3. Why is Dr. Mastermind arrested?

4. How does Ella defend herself against the native Brazilian that attacks her while she is traveling?

5. What freak weather occurs when Ella is looting the statues?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Baron von Fischer-Treunfeld?

2. What effect does General Diaz have on Franco's troops?

3. What happens when Ella and her children are sent to relocate to the small town of Pikysyry?

4. How does Pancho behave when he leaves his home and joins his father at Humaita?

5. How does Pancho die?

6. What happens when Ella and Padre Fidel Maiz visit the statues at Caacupe?

7. What happens when the entire Paraguayan fleet is sent to capture the Brazilian fleet in Riacheulto?

8. How does General Diaz die?

9. How does Franco die?

10. What does Alonzo Taylor witness while marching in the prison lines?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the end of the novel, Ella finds herself "haunted" by the ghost of the Brazilian soldier she killed. Explain the circumstances of the murder and then explain how this event irrevocably changed Ella's character.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Arrogance proved to be one of the most dangerous attributes for a character in this novel to have. Choose two characters who were particularly arrogant and give two examples of each of their arrogant behaviors. Finally, explain how the arrogance that infested these characters' live affected them in their deaths.

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