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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The author of August 25, 1983 hails from where?
(a) United States.
(b) Germany.
(c) Spain.
(d) Argentina.

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

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

6. Who is the author of The Falling Girl?
(a) Dino Buzzati.
(b) Stuart Dybek.
(c) Anne Beattie.
(d) Leslie Norris.

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

8. Where is the author of An Insolvable Problem of Genetics from?
(a) Czechoslavakia.
(b) Russia.
(c) Poland.
(d) Germany.

9. Where is the university student in La Volpaia departing by train?
(a) France.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) England.
(d) Italy.

10. Who is the author of The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket?
(a) Yasunari Kawabata.
(b) Joyce Carol Oates.
(c) Julio Cortazar.
(d) Margaret Atwood.

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

12. The teammates in Death of the Right Fielder suspect the player either tripped or what?
(a) Choked to death.
(b) Had a heart attack.
(c) Was stabbed.
(d) Was shot.

13. The old woman in Weather in San Francisco orders how much meat at the butcher's?
(a) 10 pounds.
(b) 2 pounds.
(c) 1 pound.
(d) 1 ton.

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

15. Who wrote Homage to Isaac Babel?
(a) Doris Lessing.
(b) Jorge Luis Borges.
(c) Slawomir Mrozek.
(d) Joyce Carol Oates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Blackberries take place?

2. What does the gypsy's monkey bring to him in On Hope?

3. What does Freddie explain her biological father is in An Insolvable Problem of Genetics?

4. Who is the author of Love, Your Only Mother?

5. What is the setting of An Insolvable Problem of Genetics?

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