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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tancredi, Las Papas, The Black Dog, Snow, The Explosion in the Parlor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the dentist in One of These Days?
(a) Jorge Luis Borges.
(b) Aurelio Escovar.
(c) Krishnan Varma.
(d) Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

2. Where are the potatoes from in Las Papas?
(a) Peru.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Argentina.
(d) America.

3. What is the older Borges doing in the hotel room in August 25, 1983?
(a) Committing suicide.
(b) Spying on his wife.
(c) Killing his wife.
(d) Writing a novel.

4. Who wrote Death of the Right Fielder?
(a) Julio Cortázar.
(b) Leslie Norris.
(c) Stuart Dybek.
(d) Jorge Luis Borges.

5. The girl falling 30 meters above Marta in The Falling Girl is wearing what?
(a) A bathing suit.
(b) A ball gown.
(c) A wedding dress.
(d) A cape.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Di Grasso's profession in the story with the same name?

2. Who is the author of One of These Days?

3. What rises in the water at the end of On Hope?

4. What does the older Maori tribesman tell the younger men they would be better off fishing with in At the River?

5. Where does Blackberries take place?

(see the answer key)

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