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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 setting of Blue?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Paris.
(c) Australia.
(d) New Mexico.

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

3. Where is the author of The Falling Girl from?
(a) United States.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

4. The author of Homage to Isaac Babel is listed as being from England and where?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Zimbabwe.
(c) Canada.
(d) Argentina.

5. What rises in the water at the end of On Hope?
(a) An octopus.
(b) A demon.
(c) An angel.
(d) A shark.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Death of the Right Fielder?

2. What becomes ruined due to the boy and his father in Blackberries?

3. Where is the university student in La Volpaia heading to by train?

4. In what school grade is the narrator of An Insolvable Problem of Genetics?

5. What is the age difference of the men in the hotel room in August 25, 1983?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do the boy and his father go to do after getting his new cap in Blackberries? What does this lead to?

4. Who is the central character in Love, Your Only Mother? What does she receive regularly in the mail?

5. Who is the central character in On Hope? What does his monkey bring to him?

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

7. Who is the central character in La Volpaia? Who joins him on his journey?

8. Who is the central character in House Opposite? What decision does he make in the narrative?

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

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

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