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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. Where is the author of Mr. and Mrs. Martins from?
(a) England.
(b) Canada.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Argentina.

2. Who wrote the story Mr. and Mrs. Martins?
(a) Doris Lessing.
(b) Denis Hirson.
(c) Ron Carlson.
(d) Edna Van Steen.

3. Who is the author of The Verb To Kill ?
(a) Yuan Ch'iung-Ch'iung.
(b) Luisa Valenzuela.
(c) Jeannette Winterson.
(d) Denis Hirson.

4. Di Grasso is beloved by the people of where?
(a) New York.
(b) Honolulu.
(c) Cyprus.
(d) Odessa.

5. Who is the author of The Fifth Story?
(a) Daniel Boulanger.
(b) Barbara Alberti.
(c) Clarice Linspector.
(d) Julio Otega.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what country is the author of Courtly Vision?

2. Who asks her father to allow her to forsake company and go hunt in the wild in Orion?

3. What is the name of the shoe breaker in The Shoe Breaker?

4. Who is the author of Courtly Vision?

5. Who wrote There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella?

Short Essay Questions

1. What memory is related in the story Snow?

2. What does the protagonist in A Lover's Ear keep with her at all times? What takes place in the climax of the narrative?

3. Who is the central character in There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head? What happens to him?

4. What physical ailment does the central character in Terminal suffer from?

5. How do Artemis and Orion meet in Orion? What is the outcome for the title character?

6. What does the central character in Arrest Me have as his objective? Why?

7. How do the elderly couple in Mr. and Mrs. Martins prepare for death?

8. Who is the shoe breaker in The Shoe Breaker? What happens in this story?

9. What is the theme of Lost Keys? Who is the central character?

10. What do Tancredi's two heads do once he grows up in Tancredi?

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