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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 does Flannery mistake for somebody who wants to get to know him personally?
(a) Ludmilla.
(b) The reader.
(c) Marana.
(d) Lotaria.

2. From looking in Ludmilla's kitchen, what can the reader determine?
(a) Ludmilla cooks a lot.
(b) Ludmilla eats out a lot.
(c) Ludmilla doesn't often have company.
(d) Ludmilla doesn't like to clean.

3. Who are those in "What Story Down There Awaits its End?" who want to tear down the world and bring it back up?
(a) Readers.
(b) Women.
(c) Agents.
(d) Others.

4. Who is the Father of Stories?
(a) A German storyteller.
(b) An English storyteller.
(c) A Russian storyteller.
(d) An Indian storyteller.

5. What do both wings of the OAP have in common?
(a) They want to kidnap Ludmilla.
(b) They want to obtain a publishing house.
(c) They want to destroy Marana.
(d) They want to get a book published.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the reader decide to visit to determine which book is "In a Network of Lines that Enlace"?

2. What does Miyagi want the young man to gather for them in "On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon"?

3. In "In a Network of Lines that Intersect," when the man's wife saves him, what is she holding?

4. What does Lotaria tell the third police officer to call her?

5. Where is the reader when his book his confiscated?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marana seem like a strange character?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Flannery view his readers?

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

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

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

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

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