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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where is the author of House Opposite?
(a) India.
(b) United States.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Germany.

2. Who is the author of On Hope?
(a) Jorge Luis Borges.
(b) Spencer Holst.
(c) Margaret Atwood.
(d) Julio Cortazar.

3. Who wrote Welcoming the Board of Directors?
(a) Peter Handke.
(b) Joyce Carol Oates.
(c) Aurelio Escovar.
(d) Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

4. Whose son died in Welcoming the Board of Directors?
(a) The shopkeeper's.
(b) The governor's.
(c) The porter's.
(d) The president's.

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

6. In Iguana Hunting, a boy goes to the country to visit his cousin Chidra and who?
(a) Crispin.
(b) Yula.
(c) Johann.
(d) Peter.

7. Where is the author of The Boy from?
(a) United States.
(b) Canada.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

8. Who is the author of The Boy?
(a) Mark Halprin.
(b) Aurelio Escovar.
(c) Joyce Carol Oates.
(d) Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

9. The characters in Homage to Isaac Babel see a melodramatic movie about what?
(a) Capital punishment.
(b) The apocolypse.
(c) Bollywood.
(d) World War II.

10. Who is the author of Blue?
(a) David Brooks.
(b) Hernán Lara Zavala.
(c) Richard Brautigan.
(d) Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

11. Who is the author of The Laugher?
(a) David Michael Kaplan.
(b) Heinrich Boll.
(c) Yasunari Kawabata.
(d) Josef Skvorecky.

12. What does the gypsy's monkey bring to him in On Hope?
(a) The Hope diamond.
(b) A crystal ball.
(c) The Royal sceptor.
(d) The Emerald of Divinity.

13. Who is the author of Preparations?
(a) David Brooks.
(b) Krishnan Varma.
(c) Richard Brautigan.
(d) Kenneth Bernard.

14. Who is the author of Happy Endings?
(a) Julio Cortazar.
(b) Yasunari Kawabata.
(c) Spencer Holst.
(d) Margaret Atwood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the older Borges doing in the hotel room in August 25, 1983?

2. The teammates in Death of the Right Fielder suspect the player either tripped or what?

3. Who is the author of Don't You Blame Anyone?

4. Who is the author of The Falling Girl?

5. The author of The Elephant comes from where?

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