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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tancredi, Las Papas, The Black Dog, Snow, The Explosion in the Parlor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story of the collection did Paule Barton write?
(a) There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella.
(b) Emilie Plead Choose One Egg.
(c) Terminal.
(d) The Last Days of a Famous Mime.

2. What is the man's sole profession in The Laughter?
(a) Singing.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Crying.

3. What is the setting of On Hope?
(a) Gibraltar.
(b) Argentina.
(c) Spain.
(d) New Mexico.

4. What is the setting of An Insolvable Problem of Genetics?
(a) Germany.
(b) Russia.
(c) Czechoslavakia.
(d) Poland.

5. Who eats a goat in the story Orion?
(a) Orion.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Athena.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what country is the author of The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket?

2. What becomes ruined due to the boy and his father in Blackberries?

3. Where is the author of Iguana Hunting from?

4. Who is the author of The Laugher?

5. The author of One of These Days hails from where?

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