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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 brand of sidearm does Volker own?

2. Which saint’s image did Leticia carry?

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

4. In what neighborhood do Samuel and Nadine initially settle?

5. Until what time does Rudolph usually work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What attracts Nadine to Samuel?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What occasions the rumors that trouble Rudolph as the novel begins?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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