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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 find the key to Ludmilla's house?

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

3. What is the name of the version of Lotaria who has sex with the reader?

4. Which of the following do the man and Okeda discuss after he collects the items in "On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the role of the OAP?

3. Why does Marana seem like a strange character?

4. Describe the "invisible I" character.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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