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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. What can the narrator see from the marshlands?

2. The narrator says the men violate the sanctity of what?

3. What do Casares's friends call him?.

4. What kind of product does La Martona produce?

5. What are the Spanish poets and intellectuals fleeing in the 30s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator think he could be hallucinating the people in the museum?

2. What is the main theme of many of Casares' works?

3. In what condition does Jane attend the meeting?

4. How does Morel say he can use his machine to make it seem like Madeline is in the room?

5. How does the rug seller help the narrator escape onto the island?

6. Why does the narrator think he will never get to see Faustine again?

7. How does the island disease affect people?

8. Why does the narrator think either he or the others could be dead?

9. How did Casares entertain his friends?

10. Why does the narrator decide against escaping the island?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the narrator's paranoia affect his decision making? What does the narrator's paranoia say about the affects of solitude?

Essay Topic 2

What are the differences between a novel and a novella in terms of the following?

1. Language.

2. Character.

3. Structure.

Essay Topic 3

How much can the reader trust the narrator? What suggestions are there that everything in the novel comes from the narrator's imagination?

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