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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. When Pepe shows up at Rita's place and leaves Connie outside the door, Rita thinks that he is there to take what action?
2. During Connie and Pepe's conversation on the cliff in Chapter 1: Paco, Pepe suggests that Connie go to what location for help with any problems she may have?
3. Which character is described as having been "an imperious chieftain" to "that little group of child exiles who had grown up together on the Hong Kong streets" (78)?
4. What color is the dress Connie wears to the Tovarich in Chapter 1: Paco?
5. Paco recalls that the only thing about the Phiippines he recalls his father telling him was about what natural feature?
Short Essay Questions
1. What major revelation does Connie make to Pepe about her husband Macho in Chapter 2: Macho?
2. What connection exists between Pepe and Concha, as revealed in Chapter 1: Paco?
3. Name three pieces of information Concha tells Pepe that contradict what Connie herself had told him.
4. Describe a particular gap in time mentioned within Chapter 2: Macho and discuss its purpose.
5. How does Pepe end up staying at the Tovarich with Connie while the rest of his party goes home?
6. What does Connie's red dress symbolize in Chapter 2: Macho?
7. What is an azotea and what is its significance to the narrative of The Woman Who Had Two Navels?
8. Whose narrative perspective is provided within the opening of the novel The Woman Who Had Two Navels?
9. Discuss an instance when Pepe's father's actions highlight particular expectations he had for his two sons Pepe and Tony when they were boys.
10. What advice does Pepe give to Connie as they talk inside her Jaguar at the top of a cliff?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the novel The Woman With Two Navels and how does their treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 2
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Joaquin’s novel The Woman With Two Navels. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Joaquin's choice to tell the story of The Woman With Two Navels using a third person omniscient narrator. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Joaquin’s intended effects on the reader?
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