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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 Marana's goal?
(a) To read every book.
(b) To kill Ludmilla and the reader.
(c) To create falsehoods in literature.
(d) To rewrite every book.

2. In "What Story Down There Awaits its End?" why does the man want to erase the world?
(a) To get revenge on a world who has banished him.
(b) To hide banned literature.
(c) To limit the view of a woman.
(d) To hide himself.

3. Against whom does the main character in "Around an Empty Grave" prepare to defend himself?
(a) Anacleta.
(b) Faustino.
(c) Oqiedal.
(d) Dona Jazmina.

4. Which character regrets meeting Flannery?
(a) Uzzi-Tuzii.
(b) Ludmilla.
(c) Lotaria.
(d) The reader.

5. What does OEPHLW stand for?
(a) Organization for the Electronic Production of Homogenized Literary Works.
(b) Operations of Electronic Products Held in Literary Works.
(c) Organization for the Electronic Production of Hurtful Literary Work.
(d) Organization of Each Person Having Lived Well.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the people who have developed a system to write novels with less effort?

2. Of whom does Flannery become jealous?

3. In "What Story Down There Awaits its End?", where are the agents from who give the main character information?

4. What is the one thing Marana could not stand about his former lover?

5. Who started the OAP?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe "In a Network of Lines that Enlace."

2. Why is the reader arrested? Who holds him and why?

3. Describe the "invisible I" character.

4. What is the role of the OAP?

5. How does the theme of "creating copies" come into play?

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

7. Why does Lotaria say that all things are fake?

8. Describe the relationship Ludmilla has with Irnerio that the reader discovers in Chapter 7.

9. Describe the way information is given to the reader in Chapter 6.

10. How does Flannery view his readers?

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