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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 the following does Anita call Vómito de Iguana?

2. What is the name of Leticia’s father?

3. Of what faith are the Evanses?

4. In which of the following had the Evanses volunteered?

5. How old is Nadine when she emigrates to England?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rudolph attempt to ease the sense of foreboding he feels at the beginning of the novel?

2. What motivation does Frank note for his firm’s interest in the Magnolia Project?

3. How does Anita describe her guardian angel?

4. Why does Selena’s family want her to take up with her long-term fiancé?

5. With what do the people of Leticia’s home village attempt to treat her stomach problems?

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

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

8. For what reason does Frank volunteer for the Magnolia Project?

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

10. Why is Volker’s presence at the Chilean consulate a complicating factor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Allende’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the appearance of the novel’s title in the text, when Anita comments “The wind knows my name” (163).

Essay Topic 3

To what genre other than historical fiction might The Wind Knows My Name be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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