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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 is the name of Jaromir Hladik's unfinished play?
(a) The Lie.
(b) The Secret Miracle.
(c) The Truth.
(d) The Enemies.

2. Why does the narrator have to leave his cousin's house?
(a) He must return to work.
(b) His father is dying.
(c) His sister is getting married.
(d) He has been called to active duty.

3. In "Death and the Compass," what do the police find at each crime scene?
(a) A letter to a printing company.
(b) A red rose.
(c) Letters for a specific name for God.
(d) A knife.

4. When is "The Secret Miracle" set?
(a) During World War II.
(b) During World War I.
(c) In an undetermined time.
(d) In the future.

5. How is John Vincent Moon wounded?
(a) Both legs are broken from a fall.
(b) He hits his head on a rock.
(c) His shoulder is grazed by a bullet.
(d) His chest is sliced by a bayonet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and Ireneo Funes discuss?

2. Who is Ryan?

3. Who is James Alexander Nolan?

4. Who is John Vincent Moon?

5. Who is the narrator visiting when he meets Ireneo Funes for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Erik Lonnrot discover the location of the fourth murder?

2. How is Fergus Kilpatrick both a traitor and a hero?

3. In "The End," why do the black man and the stranger fight?

4. What theory does Erik Lonnrot have about the murders in "Death and the Compass"?

5. Why does language frustrate Ireneo Funes?

6. What discovery does Erik Lonnrot make about the murders at the fourth crime scene?

7. Why does Ireneo Funes suffer from insomnia?

8. Why does the Englishman in "The Form of the Sword" hide his identity in the story?

9. What unusual theories does Nils Runeberg propose?

10. Describe Jaromir Hladik.

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