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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 Looking for the Rain God?
(a) Nadine Gordimer.
(b) Peter Carey.
(c) Bessie Head.
(d) Daniel Boulanger.

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

3. The author of By the Creek is listed as being from the United States and where?
(a) Portugal.
(b) South Africa.
(c) France.
(d) Paraguay.

4. Who is the author of Orion?
(a) Denis Hirson.
(b) Jeanette Winterson.
(c) Yuan Ch'iung-Ch'iung.
(d) Talat Abasi.

5. Where is the author of Disappearing from?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Canada.
(c) Venezuela.
(d) United States.

6. Who is the author of The Verb To Kill ?
(a) Jeannette Winterson.
(b) Yuan Ch'iung-Ch'iung.
(c) Luisa Valenzuela.
(d) Denis Hirson.

7. The author of The Explosion in the Parlor is from where?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Japan.
(c) Peru.
(d) China.

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

9. What does the young boy borrow from his father in By the Creek?
(a) His jacket.
(b) His suitcase.
(c) His head.
(d) His gun.

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

11. What is the character name of the murdered city-dweller in Di Grasso?
(a) James.
(b) Giovanni.
(c) Berlioz.
(d) Schwarz.

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Black Dog?

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

3. From what country is the author of Courtly Vision?

4. Who is the author of the story Tancredi?

5. The author of Family Album hails from where?

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