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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. Who started the OAP?
(a) Flannery.
(b) Marana.
(c) Ludmilla.
(d) Cavedagna.

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

3. Who prefers a novel that makes a person uneasy?
(a) The woman on the beach.
(b) Flannery.
(c) Lotaria.
(d) Marana.

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

5. In "In a Network of Lines that Intersect," what does the underground want to do with the main character?
(a) Kill his mistress.
(b) Recruit him.
(c) Steal his money.
(d) Kidnap him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Marana's goal?

2. Where is the woman from that is held in a chair, forced to read?

3. What is the man obsessed with in "In a Network of Lines that Intersect"?

4. According to Marana, who has kidnapped him?

5. How does Flannery want his readers to read?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marana seem like a strange character?

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

3. What do you think Calvino is trying to say about censorship?

4. Why does Ludmilla regret meeting Flannery?

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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