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

2. What is the name of Leticia’s parrot?

3. What was Rachel’s middle name?

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

5. Where did Cruz settle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Leticia abstain from politics?

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

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

4. Why does Anita note that invisibility is useful?

5. Why does Selena note being invested in Anita’s case?

6. Why does Frank bring port with him when he first visits the Durán home?

7. How does Frank know his contact at the U.S. embassy in El Salvador?

8. Why does Leticia buy decaf coffee for her employer?

9. What does Samuel note his grandson deserves?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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