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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the central female character in Happy Endings?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Jennifer.
(c) Mary.
(d) Christine.

2. Who is the author of Don't You Blame Anyone?
(a) Julio Cortazar.
(b) Spencer Holst.
(c) Margaret Atwood.
(d) Jorge Luis Borges.

3. Who is the author of Weather in San Francisco?
(a) Joyce Carol Oates.
(b) Richard Brautigan.
(c) Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
(d) Hernán Lara Zavala.

4. Where is the author of Iguana Hunting from?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Spain.
(c) Mexico.
(d) United States.

5. In what school grade is the narrator of An Insolvable Problem of Genetics?
(a) Third.
(b) Sixth.
(c) Second.
(d) Fourth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Iguana Hunting?

2. The girl falling 30 meters above Marta in The Falling Girl is wearing what?

3. What inspires people to strip their houses of walls and roofs in Blue?

4. Who wrote At the River?

5. In the second scenario presented in Happy Endings, who kills him/herself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What unifies the stories At the River, The Blue Jar, Gregory and Iguana Hunting?

2. Describe the themes and political motif in One of These Days. What other story in the collection shares similar themes?

3. Discuss and describe the imagery in the story Blackberries. How does this imagery support the narrative's themes?

4. What is the central conflict facing the family in An Insolvable Problem of Genetics? How do they go about remedying it?

5. What event has taken place in the beginning of Death of the Right Fielder? What actions do the characters take?

6. How does Richard Brautigan make use of imagery and dramatic twist in The Weather in San Francisco?

7. How does the dentist get revenge in One of These Days? For what does he enact vengeance?

8. What is the central plot in The Elephant? Why does the protagonist choose to build an inflatable elephant?

9. What happens to the narrator's friend in At the River? How does he discover this?

10. What happens once the inflatable elephant is built in The Elephant?

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