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1. Where is Juan living?2. Where does his girlfriend Mariana live? 3. Why did Mariana move to this city?4. What is Juan feeling?5. Why is Juan worried? What has he done that is dangerous? 6. Did Juan write about dangerous topics in his letter to Mariana? 7. What does the censorship office do with letters? 8. If the censorship office does not like Juan's letter, what does he predict will happen? 9. What is Juan's plan to save himself and Mariana? 10. Does the censorship board think Juan will find his letter? Do you think he will find his letter?11. What is Juan's job at the censorship office? Why is it dangerous? 12. How does Juan get promoted?13. What is Juan's new job? How does he feel about getting a new job? 14. Describe his attitude towards the people who write the letters at his new job. 15. How is Juan's job transforming his life? For example, how does he react when his mother?wants him to see other people.?16. What does he do with Mariana's letter? Why does he get executed? 17. How did his attitude towards the letter transform from question number 3? 18. Did his prediction from Question number 4 come true?ANSWERS1. Based on the context clues in the first paragraph, and the author’s biography, we can infer (make a smart guess) that Juan is living in Argentina in the 1960s. 2. Marianna escaped Argentina and lives in Paris.3. Marianna probably left Argentina to escape the censorship, executions, and government control of the people.4. Juan feels “careless”, like “happiness” played a trick on him, and worried, according to the text.5. Juan is worried because he wrote a letter to Marianna in Paris. This is dangerous because the censorship office might consider his letter “dangerous”.6. Juan’s letter is “irreproachable” and “harmless”, not dangerous.7. The censorship office workers “examine, sniff, feel, and read between the lines of every letter.” They will find the smallest detail of a letter, like “a comma” or “a stain” and use it to prove that the author of the letter is dangerous. 8. Juan is afraid he and Marianna will be kidnapped.9. Juan decides to get a job at the censorship office so that he can find his letter and hide it from the government.10. The censorship board thinks Juan will not find his letter because they have to look at so many letters a day. It is unlikely that Juan will be able to find his among the other mail.11. Juan checks letters for explosives. It is dangerous because his colleague loses his hand because of a letter bomb.12. Juan reports a colleague who wanted to fight for better working conditions to the authorities. As a result, Juan gets promoted.13. Juan feels like he has accomplished a great task and is moving up in the censorship office. He now analyzes the letters contents, searching for terrorists.14. He finds the authors of the letters as “conniving” and “subtle”, trying to put messages in their letters in order to overthrow the government.15. Juan is barely eating, sleeping, or being social with his friends.16. He censors the letter, labeling it as dangerous. Because his letter was censored, the Censorship Division kills him the next day. 17. Juan’s attitude transforms from considering his letter “harmless” and “irreproachable” to censoring it because he finds it dangerous.18. His prediction comes true, although ironically it was a future he could have prevented. ................
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