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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 was Rachel’s middle name?

2. What color wallpaper does Leticia install for Anita?

3. With which of the following does Leticia learn Nadine had had an affair?

4. In what country is the family of Anita’s mother?

5. What bakery does Leticia patronize?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the protests operate in which Edu takes part?

3. Why does Leticia range widely in her pre-dinner drinks?

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

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

6. Why is Gómez isolated in prison?

7. Why does Selena’s fiancé take well to his profession?

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

9. What accident befell Anita and her sister?

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

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

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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