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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 card game does Benigno regularly play when he returns home from exile?

2. What does Franco give to Ella when she arrives at Humaita?

3. Which of the following is NOT an ailment affecting the wounded in the hospitals of Humaita?

4. Which of the following characters are NOT jailed together in San Fernando?

5. What do believers donate to the statues at Caacupe?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Franco treat Benigno and Saturnino after their arrest for treason?

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

3. What does Dr. Mastermind realize about Franco's hospitals in Humaita?

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

5. What has happened to Ella's belongings when she and her children return to Paris?

6. What reaction waves through the women of Paraguay when Franco demands that they hand over their jewelry in support of the war against Brazil?

7. What does Charles Washburn consider a wasted golden opportunity for the Brazilian forces?

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

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

10. What conflict does Ella undertake when she decides she wants to leave Franco?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

U.S. Commander-in-Chief Charles Washburn has a very special relationship with Dr. Mastermind by the end of the novel. Explain how Charles Washburn affected Dr. Mastermind's life and death, and then explain how Washburn felt after becoming so intertwined with the doctor's fate.

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

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.

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