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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. The women in Samuel’s first foster-family work in a factory making which of the following?

2. What profession does Selena’s long-time fiancé hold?

3. What does Anita note telling her mother she receives?

4. On what day does Samuel leave Vienna for England?

5. Members of which battalion assail Leticia’s home village?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ruses does Peter enact to gain access to the facility where Rudolph is being held?

2. How does Volker mark the end of World War I?

3. How does Anita tell her sister to respond when she feels like crying?

4. What reasons does Samuel give for avoiding intimate liaisons with students?

5. For what reason was Leticia’s first marriage legally invalid?

6. What prompts Samuel’s family to move to San Francisco?

7. Why does Leticia avoid discussing her background with people in the United States?

8. For what reasons is Samuel exempted from military service?

9. What is Frank’s specific assignment with Anita?

10. Why is Samuel denied the opportunity to teach the history of jazz?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of The Wind Knows My Name do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of The Wind Knows My Name. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Assuming that The Wind Knows My Name should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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