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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. In what neighborhood does Frank’s client live?

2. In what year had Samuel’s doorbell failed?

3. Where is Samuel able to secure treatment for Anita?

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

5. How many times did Samuel and Nadine wed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. When does Anita note that invisibility is not useful?

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

8. Why does Leticia abstain from politics?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel remarks that many Central and South American countries suffered massive social upheaval in the 1970s and 1980s. Why, then, does El Salvador receive focus? That is, how does the specific focus on El Salvador shape the novel, or, how would the novel differ were a different Latin American country made its focus? Explain based on the text and your own experience.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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