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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. How does Franco reward the men who survived the attack on Riachuelto?

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

3. What does Franco build on the only high ground of Humaita?

4. Where is General MacMahon recalled to after the fall of Asuncion?

5. Why are the horses of the Paraguayan Army dying?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Pancho die?

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

4. What does Dr. Mastermind do upon his release from prison?

5. How does Franco die?

6. What happens when Franco foolishly loses 6,000 men in the marshes of Humaita?

7. How does Benigno spend his days when he returns home from exile?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ella has an interesting relationship with her servant, Marie, that changes over the course of the novel. Explain the changing relationship that Ella has with Marie, and choose two defining incidents that forever changed the relationship between the two women. Explain the outcome of each incident.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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