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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 procedure does Samuel agree to look into for Anita?

2. Where does Anita bite Rick?

3. Which of the following kinds of candy does Edu bring Anita?

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

5. What is the name of Anita’s mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What history does Leticia find for Samuel’s home?

3. Why does Selena note confusion at her erstwhile fiancé’s love for her?

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

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

6. What does Leticia note as an early sign of the fall of Samuel’s grandson?

7. How does Anita’s father die?

8. Why does Gómez invite Selena in?

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

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

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

Explicate the appearance of the novel’s title in the text, when Anita comments “The wind knows my name” (163).

Essay Topic 3

To what genre other than historical fiction might The Wind Knows My Name be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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