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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. How does Flannery want his readers to read?
(a) Quickly.
(b) Passively.
(c) Actively.
(d) Slowly.

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

3. Snippets from whose diary are present in Chapter 8?
(a) Lotaria.
(b) Flannery.
(c) The reader.
(d) Ludmilla.

4. What is the one thing Marana could not stand about his former lover?
(a) Her eating habits.
(b) Her love of mysteries.
(c) Her reading habits.
(d) Her writing.

5. How does the young man feel about Makiko in "On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon"?
(a) The young man hates Makiko.
(b) The young man only recently met Makiko and has mixed feelings about her.
(c) The young man wants to teach Makiko to read.
(d) The young man is attracted to Makiko.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character regrets meeting Flannery?

2. What does Lotaria tell the second police officer to call her?

3. Who becomes obsessed with a woman that he spies on through a telescope?

4. In whom is Ludmilla currently romantically interested?

5. Which of the following describes Ludmilla's book collection?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Flannery view his readers?

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

4. How are sensations used in the story "On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon"?

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

6. What is the role of the OEPHLW?

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

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

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

10. Describe the book "In a Network of Lines that Intersect."

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