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

2. How old is Marta in The Falling Girl?
(a) 19.
(b) 21.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

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

4. In what school grade is the narrator of An Insolvable Problem of Genetics?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Second.
(c) Third.
(d) Sixth.

5. What does the monkey die from in On Hope?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Gunshot.
(c) Choking on a jewel.
(d) Hit by a car.

6. Who makes an effort of reading Isaac Babel's short stories, though she does not understand them in Homage to Isaac Babel?
(a) Catherine.
(b) Jessica.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Philip.

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

8. Where is the author of At the River from?
(a) Australia.
(b) Canada.
(c) United States.
(d) New Zealand

9. Who is the author of Love, Your Only Mother?
(a) Mark Helprin.
(b) Josef Skvorecky.
(c) Yasunari Kawabata.
(d) David Michael Kaplan.

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

11. The title character of Gregory is what?
(a) A prisoner of war.
(b) A fisherman.
(c) A witness.
(d) A dictator.

12. Where is the author of The Falling Girl from?
(a) England.
(b) United States.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

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

14. Who is the author of August 25, 1983?
(a) Heinrich Boll.
(b) Josef Skvorecky.
(c) Jorge Luis Borges.
(d) David Michael Kaplan.

15. Who wrote the story Gregory?
(a) Doris Lessing.
(b) Panos Ioannides.
(c) Hernan Lara Zavala.
(d) Isak Dinesen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author compare the setting sun to in The Falling Girl?

2. What kind of meat does the old woman order in Weather in San Francisco?

3. When do they bury the player in Death of the Right Fielder?

4. In Iguana Hunting, a boy goes to the country to visit his cousin Chidra and who?

5. What becomes ruined due to the boy and his father in Blackberries?

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