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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. What does the author assume about the reader throughout the book?

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

3. What must a book have for Lotaria to enjoy it?

4. What separates Ludmilla's friend from Ludmilla?

5. How does the author refer to the woman the reader talks to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who or what leads the reader down the wrong path in Chapter 3?

3. How is confusion a theme in the novel?

4. Describe the line between reader and publisher in the novel.

5. Describe "Outside the Town of Malbork."

6. What is apparent about the organization the man works for in If On a Winter's Night a Traveler?

7. How is jealousy a theme in "Outside the Town of Malbork"?

8. What is the origin of the problem with the books?

9. For what does the reader continue to search after finding a problem with his second book?

10. What foreshadows a future problem in Chapter 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the setting in the novel. Why is setting significant to the novel? How would the novel change if it had a different setting? Cite one piece of evidence from the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Is reading a personal experience? Why or why not? What evidence in the novel suggests that it is? Cite at least three examples.

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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