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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Catherine hope will come to her birthday party in the end of Homage to Isaac Babel?
(a) Jack.
(b) Jason.
(c) Philip.
(d) Mark.

2. What is the man's sole profession in The Laughter?
(a) Crying.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Singing.

3. Where does Blackberries take place?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Ireland.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) Wales.

4. From what country does the story Gregory come?
(a) Cyprus.
(b) Indonesia.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) Brazil.

5. What rises in the water at the end of On Hope?
(a) A demon.
(b) An octopus.
(c) An angel.
(d) A shark.

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

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

8. What does the zoo director in The Elephant decide to get as a cheaper alternative to a live elephant?
(a) A robotic elephant.
(b) An ocelot.
(c) A wooden elephant.
(d) An inflatable elephant.

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

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

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

12. Who is the author of One of These Days?
(a) Joyce Carol Oates.
(b) Krishnan Varma.
(c) Jorge Luis Borges.
(d) Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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

14. What does the daughter of the lord become obsessed with finding in The Blue Jar?
(a) The perfect color blue.
(b) The sailor who saved her.
(c) The perfect jar.
(d) The setting sun.

15. The story of Happy Endings is structured similarly to what?
(a) Russian fairy tales.
(b) Illustrated children's books.
(c) Choose-your-own-adventure novels.
(d) Comic books.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Blue Jar?

2. In Death of the Right Fielder, how was the right fielder received by his teammates?

3. What does the monkey die from in On Hope?

4. Who wrote Welcoming the Board of Directors?

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

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