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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 do the Wings of Light follow?

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

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

4. What is the man obsessed with in "In a Network of Lines that Intersect"?

5. Who else has visited Flannery?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marana seem like a strange character?

2. How does Ludmilla describe her relationship with Marana?

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the shift in perspective that occurs in Chapter 7 and why the author included this.

8. Describe the "invisible I" character.

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

10. Describe the way information is given to the reader in Chapter 6.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the books named described in the novel and analyze it. What motivates the characters in this story? What role does diction play? What's more important - plot or characterization? To whose tastes does this book cater?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe the battle for language in the novel. How do the two sides continue to fight? How does the battle still affect those who read? What tone does the battle set for the novel?

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