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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the group's favorite two records?
(a) One More Cup of Coffee and Sevilla.
(b) A Road to Nowhere and Carnage.
(c) Frogs and Viva.
(d) Tea for Two and Valencia.

2. What country does Bioy see as his second home?
(a) Mexico.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Germany

3. What does the narrator say are on the western side of the ravine?
(a) Large boulders.
(b) Dead fish.
(c) Skeletons.
(d) Sunbathers.

4. What is the name of the island?
(a) Henderson.
(b) Paulo.
(c) Hollings.
(d) Villings.

5. What can the narrator see from the marshlands?
(a) The church.
(b) The town hall.
(c) The mountainside.
(d) The top of a hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator looking for when he makes his first discovery?

2. The town of Bearn is in what country?

3. What room measures forty feet by fifty feet?

4. What does the beautiful woman wear over her dark curls?

5. Whose motto does the narrator say he will adopt as his own?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is happening in the museum when the narrator enters to find food?

2. What do the people in the meeting conclude after Morel storms out?

3. Why does the narrator think he could be hallucinating the people in the museum?

4. What does the rug seller tell the narrator about the island?

5. Why does the narrator think the roots he has been eating have caused him to hallucinate?

6. What does the narrator want to expose in his books?

7. How does the narrator initially try to escape from the basement?

8. How does the island disease affect people?

9. Why does the narrator contemplate murder?

10. Why does the narrator think he should expose Morel's machine to the whole world?

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