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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. Who does the reader imagine is the woman Marana describes in his letters?

2. In "What Story Down There Awaits its End?" why does the man want to erase the world?

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

4. What type of company did the man in "In a Network of Lines that Intersect" found?

5. What does Flannery try to leave out of his next novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What foreshadowing is presented in the reader's desire to visit Flannery?

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

7. How does Flannery view his readers?

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

9. Why does Marana seem like a strange character?

10. What is the role of the OAP?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does the second-person perspective play in the novel? How does the use of second-person perspective have an impact on the reader? What is the author able to do with the second perspective that he would not be able to do otherwise?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Lotaria's character. What motivates Lotaria? What is her purpose in the novel? Is she a protagonist or an antagonist? Why? Cite two pieces of evidence from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

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

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