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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Terminal, Emilie Plead Choose One Egg, There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella, Family Album, The Last Days of a Famous Mime.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella?
(a) Nadine Gordimer.
(b) Paule Barton.
(c) Fernando Sorrentino.
(d) J. Bernlef.

2. Who wrote Facing the Light?
(a) Yuan Ch'iung-Ch'iung.
(b) Nadine Gordimer
(c) Talat Abasi.
(d) Doris Lessing.

3. Who is the author of An Insolvable Problem of Genetics?
(a) Yasunari Kawabata.
(b) Mark Helprin.
(c) Jamaica Kincaid.
(d) Josef Skvorecky.

4. What rises in the water at the end of On Hope?
(a) A shark.
(b) A demon.
(c) An octopus.
(d) An angel.

5. From where is the author of The Blue Jar?
(a) Greenland.
(b) Wales.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Switzerland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Courtly Vision?

2. Who is the author of Blackberries?

3. How does the author say the night had fallen in The Falling Girl?

4. What does the zoo director in The Elephant decide to get as a cheaper alternative to a live elephant?

5. Where do they bury the player in Death of the Right Fielder?

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