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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator thinks the people could be from where?
(a) Another planet.
(b) Heaven.
(c) The bottom of the sea.
(d) Hell.

2. Whose footsteps drive the narrator away?
(a) Borges'.
(b) The rugseller's.
(c) Morel's.
(d) Faustine's.

3. Morel compares his invention to what?
(a) The radio, the phonograph and the television.
(b) The telephone, the DVD player and the cinema.
(c) The beer, the stamp and the computer.
(d) The telegram, the wireless and the television.

4. Why does the narrator want to expose the machine to the world?
(a) So he can win Faustine.
(b) So he can become famous.
(c) So his pursuers will excuse him from his crimes.
(d) So he can become rich.

5. What does the narrator say may be hallucinations?
(a) The fresh streams.
(b) The people.
(c) The coconut trees.
(d) The buildings.

6. How does the narrator recognize the poisonous plants?
(a) Froma book he finds in the museum.
(b) From the number of corpses that surround the bush.
(c) Through pain he has suffered form eating them.
(d) From the color of the berries.

7. Why does Morel choose Villings Island for his experiments?
(a) Because it is uninhabited.
(b) For the tides and light.
(c) For the fresh air.
(d) Because he can trap people there.

8. What did Morel think the reef would ward off?
(a) Visitors.
(b) Sharks.
(c) Spies.
(d) Whales.

9. Who is ordering around the servants?
(a) Faustine.
(b) Jane.
(c) Morel.
(d) The rug seller.

10. Whose photograph does Morel say he can show them?
(a) David's.
(b) Charlie's.
(c) Peter's.
(d) John's.

11. Where does the narrator find fresh flowers?
(a) In the cemetery.
(b) Next to the museum.
(c) In the lowlands.
(d) In the mountains.

12. Why does the narrator think the two men he sees are ghosts?
(a) They can't pick things up.
(b) He can see through them.
(c) They walk through him.
(d) They don't react to him.

13. Why does Morel name the museum 'the museum?'
(a) Because it has many old books.
(b) Because it looks like the London National Museum.
(c) Because he thinsk he will have to exhibit his images.
(d) Because it is based on a museum building.

14. What is the name of the man who joins the woman on the beach?
(a) James.
(b) Lucia.
(c) Jose.
(d) Morel.

15. What does the large hall look like it has been set up to host?
(a) A picnic.
(b) A badminton game.
(c) A lecture.
(d) A big dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't the narrator initially escape from the museum?

2. Who does the narrator think could be the director of the insane asylum?

3. What kind of bloody animal does the narrator say he has added to his diet?

4. About whom does the narrator dream in this section?

5. Which two people are absent from the meeting?

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