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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Black Dog?
(a) Daniel Boulanger.
(b) Julio Otega.
(c) Clarice Linspector.
(d) J. Bernlef.

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

3. What do the children convince their father to let them borrow in The Verb To Kill?
(a) A knife.
(b) A rifle.
(c) His head.
(d) His clothes.

4. Who wrote The Street Sweeping Show?
(a) Feng Jicai.
(b) J. Bernlef.
(c) Ron Carlson.
(d) Yuan Ch'iung-Ch'iung.

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

6. Di Grasso is beloved by the people of where?
(a) Honolulu.
(b) New York.
(c) Odessa.
(d) Cyprus.

7. Where is the father originally from in Las Papas?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Peru.

8. Where is the family in Family Album from?
(a) Wales.
(b) America.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Lapland.

9. Who is the author of The Last Days of a Famous Mime?
(a) Dovlatov.
(b) Daniel Boulanger.
(c) Peter Carey.
(d) Nadine Gordimer.

10. Who wrote There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella?
(a) J. Bernlef.
(b) Paule Barton.
(c) Fernando Sorrentino.
(d) Nadine Gordimer.

11. What is the name of the protagonist in The Model?
(a) Alexander Elihu.
(b) J. Bernlef.
(c) Ephraim Alexander.
(d) Ephraim Elihu.

12. Who is the author of the story Tancredi?
(a) Barbara Alberti.
(b) Clarice Linspector.
(c) Daniel Boulanger.
(d) Julio Otega.

13. Who is the author of Courtly Vision?
(a) Bharati Mukherjee.
(b) Yuan Ch'iung-Ch'iung.
(c) Ron Carlson.
(d) J. Bernlef.

14. Who wrote Family Album?
(a) Fernando Sorrentino.
(b) Siv Cedering.
(c) J. Bernlef.
(d) Nadine Gordimer.

15. Where is the author of Orion from?
(a) Australia.
(b) New Zealand.
(c) Canada.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, in addition to her lover, does Katya live with in Katya?

2. Where is the author of Disappearing from?

3. Who is the cobbler awaiting in his shop in the beginning of The Shoe Breaker?

4. What does the protagonist of A Lover's Ear always carry with her?

5. Who is the author of The Explosion in the Parlor?

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