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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 Frank note having attended?

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

3. Which composer’s work is Samuel playing when he first appears in the text?

4. Which of the following types of porcelain had Nadine had in her trousseau?

5. What role does Antia’s grandmother have in Azabahar?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rudolph explain to Peter his people’s predilection for education?

2. What attracts Nadine to Samuel?

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

4. How does Anita describe her guardian angel?

5. How does the novel report the English handle the German war efforts against them?

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

7. Why does Nadine thrill at the revelation of Samuel’s ancestry?

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

9. What difficulties does Samuel face with his first foster-family in England?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the ethics of Leticia's review of Nadine's diaries. Is she right to undertake the project? 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

The novel remarks that many Central and South American countries suffered massive social upheaval in the 1970s and 1980s. Why, then, does El Salvador receive focus? That is, how does the specific focus on El Salvador shape the novel, or, how would the novel differ were a different Latin American country made its focus? Explain based on the text and your own experience.

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