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

2. Who wrote Facing the Light?
(a) Doris Lessing.
(b) Talat Abasi.
(c) Yuan Ch'iung-Ch'iung.
(d) Nadine Gordimer

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

4. Who is the author of the story Tancredi?
(a) Clarice Linspector.
(b) Barbara Alberti.
(c) Julio Otega.
(d) Daniel Boulanger.

5. Who is the author of Las Papas?
(a) Barbara Alberti.
(b) Daniel Boulanger.
(c) Julio Otega.
(d) Clarice Linspector.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Di Grasso's profession in the story with the same name?

2. The protagonist in Arrest Me wants to go to prison to do what?

3. Who is the author of A Lover's Ear?

4. What does the protagonist of A Lover's Ear always carry with her?

5. What is the name of the shoe breaker in The Shoe Breaker?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Artemis and Orion meet in Orion? What is the outcome for the title character?

2. What does the protagonist in A Lover's Ear keep with her at all times? What takes place in the climax of the narrative?

3. What is the setting of Di Grasso? From whose perspective is the story told?

4. Who are the characters in Emilie Plead Choose One Egg? What takes place in the story?

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

6. What does the central character in Arrest Me have as his objective? Why?

7. What is the theme of Lost Keys? Who is the central character?

8. What takes place in Katya? Who are the characters and what actions do they take in the narrative?

9. What memory is related in the story Snow?

10. How do the elderly couple in Mr. and Mrs. Martins prepare for death?

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