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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. Which of Ella's sons is killed during the flight from Paraguay?

2. What does Pancho begin collecting from the enemy soldiers killed in battle?

3. Whose spirit haunts Ella into her old age?

4. Which of the following is NOT a punishment that Franco's sisters must endure?

5. What does Franco demand from all the women in Paraguay to help support his war against Brazil?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Franco die?

6. How does Dr. Mastermind spend his days in prison?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Paraguayan people proved to be the strongest characters in the novel. Explain the trauma that the Paraguayan people succumbed to and then explain how they proved to be resilient even in the face of extreme adversity.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the novel, both Franco and Ella take lovers during their relationship with one another.

Part 1.) Create a list of characters who were taken as lovers by both Ella and Franco.

Part 2.) Compare and contrast the reasons why Franco and Ella took lovers, and what their emotional states were during the affairs.

Part 3.) Explain the effect that the affairs and lovers had on Franco and Ella's relationship with each other and the lives of their children.

Essay Topic 3

Franco's proposal to Isabella de Braganza goes terribly wrong. Explain why Franco wanted to propose to this woman and what the reaction to the proposal was from the point of view of AT LEAST three different characters.

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