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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Morel say will happen after three days?
(a) Everything will be over.
(b) Faustine will have forgotten him.
(c) The soldiers will come.
(d) He will hold a meeting.

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

5. When does the narrator say he likes to hunt?
(a) The afternoons.
(b) The mornings.
(c) The weekends.
(d) The evenings.

6. Why does the narrator decide against killing himself?
(a) He has no pratical method to do it.
(b) Faustine is not there to mourn him.
(c) He wants to kill Morel.
(d) He has to see Faustine again.

7. What does the narrator steal from Morel?
(a) His machine.
(b) His notes.
(c) His bible.
(d) His book.

8. With whom does the narrator think the invaders are working?
(a) His parents.
(b) The police.
(c) The army.
(d) The government.

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

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

11. What does Faustine tell Morel she thinks he is?
(a) Evil.
(b) Loving.
(c) A genius.
(d) Mysterious.

12. Why does Morel like the tides?
(a) They are fun for swimming.
(b) They provide power for his machine.
(c) They ward away visitors.
(d) They stop people from leaving.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two people are absent from the meeting?

2. What does the narrator bring to give to the woman on the beach?

3. The narrator thinks the people could be from where?

4. Morel compares his invention to what?

5. What will a dial on the machine allow those present to feel?

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