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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 is the name of Selena’s mother?

2. What is the name of Anita’s sister?

3. Which of the following juices do Selena and Frank drink at the U.S. embassy in El Salvador?

4. For what profession is Selena’s mother trained?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What accident befell Anita and her sister?

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. What does Samuel note his grandson deserves?

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

10. Why does Anita note that invisibility is useful?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assuming that The Wind Knows My Name should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

How does the reputation of Selena’s grandmother and the actions she takes that support it influence your understanding of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Anita’s blindness receives substantial attention throughout the novel, but blindness is not the only condition of disability to exist. How would the novel differ if Anita were otherwise disabled than she is? What in the novel suggests as much, and how?

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