View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the aquarium different from the last time the narrator saw it?

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

3. What does Morel say he wants to happen before he begins?

4. What is the man seeking at the beginning of this section?

5. Who do the audience think Morel may have killed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the book and help to express character and theme.

1. Setting

2. Point of view

3. Structure

4. Language

Essay Topic 2

In what way are Casares' views and the way he lived life an important part of what happens on the novel?

Discuss whether it is right or wrong for an author's persona to become such an important part of a story.

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 218 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample