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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 and Around an Empty Grave.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character in "Without Fear of Wind or Vertigo" is described as ungrateful and terse?
(a) Alex.
(b) Valerian.
(c) Irina.
(d) Eric.

2. What is similar to the reader's book and the book Uzzi-Tuzzii translates?
(a) Location.
(b) Author.
(c) Plot.
(d) Proper names.

3. In "Outside the Town of Malbork," where does the main character's spend his final morning?
(a) Kurbinsa.
(b) Kudgiwa.
(c) Korseniwa.
(d) Klyne.

4. Why is "Leaning from the Steep Slope" unfinished?
(a) The book's publisher dropped the author.
(b) The author was censored.
(c) The author committed suicide.
(d) The author no longer enjoyed writing.

5. In Chapter 7, who is late for a meeting?
(a) Uzzi-Tuzii.
(b) Lotaria.
(c) Ludmilla.
(d) The reader.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the man in the first story sit with his suitcase?

2. Who wrote "Leaning from the Steep Slope"?

3. Which sense does cutting apart pages with a paper knife occupy?

4. What does Flannery try to leave out of his next novel?

5. With whom does the man in If On a Winter's Night a Traveler talk?

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