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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the reader look for answers about the story's setting in Chapter 2?

2. What is the name of the country divided so much that it no longer exists?

3. What does the reader do when the book starts over?

4. What is Uzzi-Tuzii's profession?

5. Which word best describes the setting in "Without Fear of Wind or Vertigo"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Calvino bring interactivity to the book?

2. Describe "Outside the Town of Malbork."

3. Describe the structure of the book.

4. Describe the perspective from which the novel is narrated.

5. How is confusion a theme in the novel?

6. In Chapter 4, what type of book does Ludmilla state she enjoys and why is this significant?

7. Describe the narrator of "Leaning from the Steep Slope."

8. How is Cavedagna symbolic of the author of the novel, Calvino.

9. Describe the reader's comments on the difference between reading and hearing somebody read aloud.

10. What do the reader and Ludmilla agree upon in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance behind the novel titles creating a complete sentence? What does the sentence mean? What does the sentence ask the reader to contemplate?

Essay Topic 2

What is odd about the format in this novel? Why do you think the author chooses to include many small stories within one large story? Is this an effective storytelling method? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

What are the benefits to this book being interactive for the reader? How does the author make it interactive? Is the author effective or ineffective in making the book interactive?

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