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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 Galligani's profession?
(a) Professor.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Actor.
(d) Writer.

2. How many men greet the two characters in an elevator in "Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow"?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

3. When the reader turns the page, what does he discover to make a defective book?
(a) Pages that have been handwritten.
(b) Torn pages.
(c) A letter from Ludmilla.
(d) Blank pages.

4. What is on the photo that is in a character's pocket?
(a) A pretty girl.
(b) A handsome man.
(c) An old woman.
(d) An old man.

5. What did Marana claim to be, according to the publishing house?
(a) A translator.
(b) An illustrator.
(c) An agent.
(d) An author.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who enjoys reading books without underlying meanings?

3. What is similar to the reader's book and the book Uzzi-Tuzzii translates?

4. From what perspective is most of the novel written?

5. What does the author assume about the reader throughout the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the imagery used in "Outside the Town of Malbork."

4. Describe the perspective from which the novel is narrated.

5. How is Irnerio different from Ludmilla?

6. Describe "Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow."

7. Describe "Outside the Town of Malbork."

8. How is Cavedagna symbolic of the author of the novel, Calvino.

9. Why does Ludmilla read?

10. For what does the reader continue to search after finding a problem with his second book?

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