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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 transition does the reader take in Chapter 10?
(a) Angry to content.
(b) Innocent to double agent.
(c) Man in love to man with hatred.
(d) Problem solver to bystander.

2. Whose reading habits do those censoring novels have most in common with?
(a) Irnerio.
(b) Ludmilla.
(c) Lotaria.
(d) Marana.

3. Of whom does Flannery become jealous?
(a) Cavedagna.
(b) Lotaria.
(c) The reader.
(d) Ludmilla.

4. Who does the reader imagine is the woman Marana describes in his letters?
(a) Ludmilla.
(b) Lotaria.
(c) The bookseller.
(d) A character from one of the novels.

5. To what does Flannery compare a reader?
(a) A zombie.
(b) A vampire.
(c) A wild animal.
(d) Frankenstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who started the OAP?

2. Who is the writer of "What Story Down There Awaits its End?"

3. In "In a Network of Lines that Enlace," about what is the man anxious?

4. Who once had a personal relationship with Marana, according to Irnerio?

5. Who dies in the beginning of "Around an Empty Grave"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Flannery view his readers?

2. Why does the reader accept the assignment in Chapter 10?

3. Describe the story "What Story Down There Awaits Its End?"

4. Describe how the ramifications of falsehoods are explored in Chapter 9.

5. Why does Marana seem like a strange character?

6. What foreshadowing is presented in the reader's desire to visit Flannery?

7. Describe the story in "On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon."

8. Describe the significance of the reader going from innocent to agent.

9. Why do scientists have a woman strapped to a chair reading, according to Marana?

10. How can reading stimulate life, according to the author?

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