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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can't the narrator initially escape from the museum?
(a) Someone has tied him to his bed.
(b) There are dogs guarding the doors.
(c) He can't open the latches on the doors.
(d) He has been drugged.

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

3. What will a dial on the machine allow those present to feel?
(a) The museum's walls.
(b) The narrator's skin.
(c) Madeline's skin.
(d) The air.

4. Why is the narrator certain that people have come back to the island?
(a) Taxes are high.
(b) There is a terrible storm.
(c) Disease is everywhere.
(d) There is nothing to drink or eat.

5. Who does the narrator think could be the director of the insane asylum?
(a) Morel.
(b) Himself.
(c) Faustine.
(d) The rug seller.

6. What does the man realize he loves in this section?
(a) An angel.
(b) A goddess.
(c) A ghost.
(d) An iomage.

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

8. What does Morel say is the name of the company with which he worked on his machine?
(a) The Schwachter Company.
(b) The Schwein Company.
(c) The Snide Company.
(d) The Heckeroth Company.

9. What does the narrator scream at Morel to humiliate him?
(a) The woman is bald.
(b) You have a hole in your pants.
(c) Your zipper is undone.
(d) The woman has a beard.

10. What kind of bloody animal does the narrator say he has added to his diet?
(a) Birds.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Cows.
(d) Ducks.

11. What does Faustine fail to stop Morel from doing?
(a) Eating the narrator's berries.
(b) Trampling on the narrator's flowers.
(c) Kissing her.
(d) Swearing at the narrator.

12. What does the woman watch every afternoon?
(a) The ducks.
(b) The sunset.
(c) The television.
(d) The dancing girls.

13. What does the man think is causing him to hallucinate?
(a) The mushrooms.
(b) The roots.
(c) The air.
(d) The water.

14. What is the man seeking at the beginning of this section?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Food.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Drink.

15. Why does Morel excuse one individual from attending the meeting?
(a) He is too heavy to bring.
(b) He promises he will come later.
(c) He is feeling ill.
(d) He is cooking the dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what part of the island is the narrator's boat?

2. What problem does the narrator have with the room where he sleeps that night?

3. Which Canddian city is Madeline's home?

4. What does the narrator find when he enters the museum?

5. What is the name of the man who joins the woman on the beach?

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