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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 bakery does Leticia patronize?

2. Whom of the following is the first the author acknowledges?

3. How many years had Edu been working at the indigo workshop?

4. In what neighborhood had Anita’s mother worked?

5. For which of the following does Rick work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What accident befell Anita and her sister?

2. To what are the preternatural abilities of the Durán women attributed?

3. Why does Selena remark Anita has been extended some leniency by the judge hearing her case?

4. How had Cruz helped Nadine’s work with immigrants?

5. Why does Leticia hesitate to buy clothes for Anita?

6. How does Anita’s father die?

7. Why does Samuel note that stripping children from their parents is deeply American?

8. How does Selena react to the autopsies of those exhumed from the mass grave in El Salvador?

9. Why is Gómez isolated in prison?

10. What does Samuel recall that prompts him to help Anita?

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

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

Consider the compression and expansion of time in the novel, with some chapters covering decades and others a month or less. What effect does this have on the reader, and how does the effect come across?

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