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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. As Connie and Pepe are "racing up a peak in an open car," Pepe yells "Stop it!" (90) a total of how many times before she stops?
2. What two items did Connie throw into the pond as a young girl before lying to her family about being robbed?
3. How many children do Paco and his wife Mary have together?
4. When Pepe returns to the balcony to meet Connie and finds her missing, where does he eventually locate her?
5. In Connie's story about her childhood, she states that she dreamt of what kind of fish eating her doll the night the doll was lost to her forever?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the motif of sound appear within Pepe's recollections of his father's stories about Binondo?
2. In what way is the theme of family bonds treated differently in Chapter 2: Macho than in Chapter 1: Paco and what is the significance of this complication?
3. When Concha refrains from answering the telephone in Chapter 2: Macho, which character is calling her and why?
4. What does Rita find in her apartment the morning after Connie has spent the night?
5. Name three pieces of information the reader learns about Paco when the narrator provides his perspective at the end of Chapter 1: Paco.
6. Name three pieces of information Concha tells Pepe that contradict what Connie herself had told him.
7. Who is Helen?
8. What does Connie say when Pepe asks her how old she is and whether she is married or not?
9. What fairly recent event does Pepe see as the one that transformed his father's personality?
10. How does the theme of appearance versus reality appear within Pepe's comments to Concha within Chapter 1: Paco?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Trace the characterization arc of Connie throughout the novel and discuss her character's connection to a major theme within the text.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Joaquin’s use of the motif of water within the novel The Woman With Two Navels.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Joaquin’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of The Woman With Two Navels.
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