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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. From what country is the author of Courtly Vision?
(a) India.
(b) England.
(c) United States.
(d) Ireland.

6. Who wrote the story Katya?
(a) Peter Carey.
(b) Nadine Gordimer.
(c) Dovlatov.
(d) Daniel Boulanger.

7. The author of Family Album hails from where?
(a) England.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Canada.

8. What does the patriarch of the house of Mokgobja do in order to bring rain in Looking for the Rain God?
(a) Sacrifices his son.
(b) Burns his crops.
(c) Sacrifices his daughters.
(d) Burns down his estate.

9. Who eats a goat in the story Orion?
(a) Orion.
(b) Athena.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Artemis.

10. Who wrote The Book?
(a) Doris Lessing.
(b) Margaret Atwood.
(c) Yuan Ch'iung-Ch'iung.
(d) Rey Rosa.

11. Who wrote the story Mr. and Mrs. Martins?
(a) Ron Carlson.
(b) Denis Hirson.
(c) Doris Lessing.
(d) Edna Van Steen.

12. What deformation does Tancredi suffer from in the story bearing his name?
(a) Two heads.
(b) Two stomachs.
(c) Twelve toes.
(d) Four arms.

13. Where are the potatoes from in Las Papas?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Peru.
(c) Mexico.
(d) America.

14. Who, in addition to her lover, does Katya live with in Katya?
(a) Pavel.
(b) Petr.
(c) Dovlatov.
(d) Egorov.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the character name of the murdered city-dweller in Di Grasso?

2. Who is the author of Di Grasso?

3. The author of By the Creek is listed as being from the United States and where?

4. What does the young boy borrow from his father in By the Creek?

5. Who is the author of The Verb To Kill ?

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