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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 appellation is given to the site of the mass grave in El Salvador?

2. To which of the following does Selena compare her erstwhile fiancé?

3. In what month does news of the mass grave in El Salvador reach Samuel?

4. Which of the following does Gómez give Edu?

5. In what neighborhood does Frank’s client live?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Leticia abstain from politics?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Anita note that invisibility is useful?

8. Why is Gómez isolated in prison?

9. What does Samuel note his grandson deserves?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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