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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the age difference of the men in the hotel room in August 25, 1983?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 23 years.
(d) 3 years.

2. As Marta falls in The Falling Girl, the people get gradually more and more what as she nears the ground?
(a) Masculine.
(b) Young.
(c) Old.
(d) Beautiful.

3. The author of Love, Your Only Mother hails from where?
(a) United States.
(b) Canada.
(c) Israel.
(d) Great Britain.

4. Where is the author of Iguana Hunting from?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Spain.
(c) Mexico.
(d) United States.

5. What is Gregory skilled at in the story with his name?
(a) Sailing.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Computers.
(d) Cooking.

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

7. Who wrote the story La Volpaia?
(a) Yasunari Kawabata.
(b) Jamaica Kincaid.
(c) Joyce Carol Oates.
(d) Mark Helprin.

8. What is the subject of the lecture the older Borges discusses in August 25, 1983?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) The Aeneid.
(d) Euripides.

9. Who wrote At the River?
(a) Patricia Grace.
(b) Kenneth Bernard.
(c) Isak Dinesan.
(d) Joyce Carol Oates.

10. What are the people like in the upper floors of the skyscraper in The Falling Girl?
(a) Young and rich.
(b) Middle aged and bored.
(c) Young and poor.
(d) Old and feeble.

11. What becomes ruined due to the boy and his father in Blackberries?
(a) Shoes.
(b) A basket.
(c) Pants.
(d) A cap.

12. What does the author compare the setting sun to in The Falling Girl?
(a) A mushroom.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A halo.
(d) A potato.

13. What does the old woman feed the meat to in the end of Weather in San Francisco?
(a) Cats.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Bees.
(d) Fish.

14. What color is the skyscraper in The Falling Girl?
(a) Gold.
(b) Black.
(c) Silver.
(d) Blue.

15. The story On Hope comes from what country?
(a) United States.
(b) Argentina.
(c) Canada.
(d) Israel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the central male character in Happy Endings?

3. From where is the author of The Blue Jar?

4. Who is the author of Girl?

5. From what country does the story Gregory come?

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