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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 many minutes after Amor gets to her home, does she finally go inside?

2. How long has Amor lived at the hostel waiting for her mother to die?

3. How long does Rachel's sister Marcia say it has been since she talked to Rachel when Rachel came to her?

4. With whom does Marina dream she is on a picnic on the day Rachel dies?

5. How long has the elderly woman working on Rachel's body been a volunteer preparing the dead for burial?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who prepares Rachel's body for burial and how?

2. What do Manie and Ockie do after the family is alone at the house?

3. What does the Swart house look like?

4. What happens when Anton tells Lexington to take the shorter route home?

5. Who is Wessel and what does he do?

6. Where is the Swart farm, and why it is not a real farm?

7. How does Marina feel as she supervises Salome?

8. How does Manie sleep the night his wife dies?

9. What does Anton decide to do when he returns to the military base?

10. What does Anton tell Salome he wants to do when he is done with the army?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rachel receives a traditional Jewish funeral and burial. Why are her funeral and burial a source of contention for family members?

Essay Topic 2

The Swarts are not a close-knit family. How would you describe the Swart family? What is revealed about family dynamics through their interactions with one another?

Essay Topic 3

An inciting incident is an event in literature that begins the action of a story, and presents a question that the protagonists and readers want an answer to. What are the inciting incidents in the first two sections of The Promise? What do these events trigger? How do they affect characters and their paths?

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