Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-short Stories Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Robert Shapard
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-short Stories Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Robert Shapard
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the author of Iguana Hunting from?
(a) Mexico.
(b) United States.
(c) Spain.
(d) Argentina.

2. As Marta falls in The Falling Girl, the people get gradually more and more what as she nears the ground?
(a) Young.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Old.

3. Who makes an effort of reading Isaac Babel's short stories, though she does not understand them in Homage to Isaac Babel?
(a) Jessica.
(b) Catherine.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Philip.

4. When do they bury the player in Death of the Right Fielder?
(a) Sunrise.
(b) Noon.
(c) Sunset.
(d) 7 p.m.

5. How old is the student in The Boy?
(a) 17.
(b) 10.
(c) 14.
(d) 13.

6. What does the gypsy in On Hope train monkeys to do?
(a) Steal for him.
(b) Play the piano.
(c) Dance and smoke.
(d) Hunt for food.

7. From where is the author of The Blue Jar?
(a) Greenland.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Wales.

8. What does the monkey die from in On Hope?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Choking on a jewel.
(c) Hit by a car.
(d) Gunshot.

9. The story of Happy Endings is structured similarly to what?
(a) Choose-your-own-adventure novels.
(b) Comic books.
(c) Illustrated children's books.
(d) Russian fairy tales.

10. Who is the author of Don't You Blame Anyone?
(a) Julio Cortazar.
(b) Spencer Holst.
(c) Margaret Atwood.
(d) Jorge Luis Borges.

11. Who wrote the story La Volpaia?
(a) Jamaica Kincaid.
(b) Mark Helprin.
(c) Yasunari Kawabata.
(d) Joyce Carol Oates.

12. What does the older Maori tribesman tell the younger men they would be better off fishing with in At the River?
(a) Hooks.
(b) Spears.
(c) Arrows.
(d) Guns.

13. Who is the author of Iguana Hunting?
(a) Luisa Valenzuela.
(b) Hernan Lara Zavala.
(c) Edla van Steen.
(d) Doris Lessing.

14. What intellectual friend does the narrator visit in Homage to Isaac Babel?
(a) Phillip.
(b) Jack.
(c) Paul.
(d) Andrew.

15. Where is the author of The Boy from?
(a) United States.
(b) England.
(c) Canada.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket?

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

3. What is the setting of On Hope?

4. Who moves across from the ascetic in House Opposite?

5. What are the people like in the upper floors of the skyscraper in The Falling Girl?

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