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

3. What does Colonel Estigarribia do after watching half his troops get slaughtered at the Rio Grande?

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

5. When Franco has nightmares, what does he shout in his sleep?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does General Diaz die?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Pancho die?

9. Who is Baron von Fischer-Treunfeld?

10. What befalls the "traitors" in the Lopez family after their arrest?

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

Describe Dr. Henry Kennedy and explain the impact that he had on Ella's life. How does his short presence in the novel change the relationship that Ella has with Franco?

Essay Topic 3

Ella and Franco had very different childhoods that inevitably led them to each other. Compare and contrast the childhoods that these characters had, and explain how their upbringings irrevocably altered their relationship.

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