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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 role does Antia’s grandmother have in Azabahar?

2. What is the last name of Rudolph’s assistant?

3. Which of the following jobs does Leticia’s father take?

4. In what year is Camille born?

5. With which of the following is Samuel employed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Anita assert Azabahar is located?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of The Wind Knows My Name on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does The Wind Knows My Name bear as much out?

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