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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asks her father to allow her to forsake company and go hunt in the wild in Orion?
(a) Helen.
(b) Athena.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Artemis.

2. Who runs the opera troupe in Di Grasso?
(a) Guliani.
(b) Schwarz.
(c) James.
(d) Jackson.

3. Who wrote Bigfoot Stole My Wife?
(a) Doris Lessing.
(b) Denis Hirson.
(c) Ron Carlson.
(d) Yuan Ch'iung-Ch'iung.

4. What is the name of the teacher in The School?
(a) Edgar.
(b) James.
(c) Paul.
(d) Mark.

5. Who is the author of Disappearing?
(a) Doris Lessing.
(b) Hernan Lara Zavala.
(c) Monica Wood.
(d) Edla van Steen.

6. What physical problem does the central character of Terminal suffer from?
(a) Kidney.
(b) Gastrointestinal.
(c) Uterine.
(d) Heart.

7. Who is the author of The Fifth Story?
(a) Julio Otega.
(b) Clarice Linspector.
(c) Barbara Alberti.
(d) Daniel Boulanger.

8. What is the name of the shoe breaker in The Shoe Breaker?
(a) Bognavich.
(b) Dovlatov.
(c) Pincalore.
(d) Pinceloup.

9. Who wrote Facing the Light?
(a) Yuan Ch'iung-Ch'iung.
(b) Nadine Gordimer
(c) Talat Abasi.
(d) Doris Lessing.

10. What is the name of Katya's lover in Katya?
(a) Petr.
(b) Dovlatov.
(c) Egorov.
(d) Pavel.

11. Where is the author of There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella from?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Holland.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Canada.

12. What story was written by the author Ann Beattie?
(a) Las Papas.
(b) Snow.
(c) Tancredi.
(d) The Black Dog.

13. Where is the author of A Lover's Ear from?
(a) Taiwan.
(b) Israel.
(c) South Korea.
(d) Japan.

14. What breaks in The Explosion in the Parlor?
(a) A lamp.
(b) A glass.
(c) A mirror.
(d) A thermos.

15. Who is the cobbler awaiting in his shop in the beginning of The Shoe Breaker?
(a) A Duke.
(b) A Baron.
(c) A Prince.
(d) A King.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children convince their father to let them borrow in The Verb To Kill?

2. What story of the collection did Paule Barton write?

3. Di Grasso is beloved by the people of where?

4. The protagonist in Arrest Me wants to go to prison to do what?

5. What is the name of the protagonist in The Model?

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