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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 the narrator's daughter in "Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow"?
(a) Jolene.
(b) Sibylle.
(c) Teresa.
(d) Bernadette.

2. What separates Ludmilla's friend from Ludmilla?
(a) He does not like the reader.
(b) He does not read.
(c) He does not go to school.
(d) He is a teacher.

3. What does the author admit to wishing to convey through descriptions of a fight?
(a) A true sense of violence.
(b) A true sense of romance.
(c) A true sense of character.
(d) A true sense of imagery.

4. Who agrees that the reader needs to see a publisher but does not want to go by himself/herself?
(a) Alex.
(b) Lotaria.
(c) Ludmilla.
(d) Uzzi-Tuzii.

5. What does the reader do when the book starts over?
(a) He throws it.
(b) He calls Ludmilla.
(c) He laughs.
(d) He puts it in the trash.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow," what is the name of the dead man?

2. What made the publishing house question Marana's competency?

3. What language does Marana confess that he cannot read?

4. When the reader turns the page, what does he discover to make a defective book?

5. Which character is Irina most like?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the narrator of "Leaning from the Steep Slope."

2. How is Irnerio different from Ludmilla?

3. What foreshadows a future problem in Chapter 2?

4. Describe the novel "Without Fear of Wind or Vertigo."

5. Describe the line between reader and publisher in the novel.

6. Why was "Without Fear of Wind or Vertigo" chastised?

7. Why does Lotaria read?

8. How is confusion a theme in the novel?

9. What is apparent about the organization the man works for in If On a Winter's Night a Traveler?

10. Describe the reader's comments on the difference between reading and hearing somebody read aloud.

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