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

2. Who is the author of Disappearing?
(a) Hernan Lara Zavala.
(b) Monica Wood.
(c) Doris Lessing.
(d) Edla van Steen.

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

4. How does the woman in Terminal attempt suicide?
(a) Slit wrists.
(b) Shooting.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Overdose.

5. Who is the author of By the Creek?
(a) Doris Lessing.
(b) Yuan Ch'iung-Ch'iung.
(c) Hernan Lara Zavala.
(d) Barry Yourgrau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the author of Orion from?

2. Who is the author of The Shoe Breaker?

3. Who is the author of Di Grasso?

4. Orion is killed by what in the story with his name?

5. Who is the author of Las Papas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the characters in Looking for the Rain God decide to do in order to bring rain?

2. How do Di Grasso and The Street-Sweeping Show relate thematically?

3. What do Tancredi's two heads do once he grows up in Tancredi?

4. What is implied in the story The Verb To Kill? What do the central characters do in the narrative?

5. Who is the shoe breaker in The Shoe Breaker? What happens in this story?

6. How does the central theme and structure of Looking for the Rain God relate to other stories in the collection?

7. What memory is related in the story Snow?

8. What is the back-story established in Orion? Who are the main characters?

9. Who is the central character in There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head? What happens to him?

10. How does the story The Model reflect the theme of aging?

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