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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Mine Field", who are the characters?

2. In "Animal Woods", what attacks the soldier?

3. In "Lazy Sons", who asks Pietro and Andrea to work?

4. In "The Enchanted Garden", what are the names of the children?

5. Who is the author of "Difficult Loves"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Lazy Sons", what is the family dynamic?

2. Describe Binda of "Fear on the Footpath".

3. In "A Goatherd at Luncheon", how does the narrator perceive the Goatherd?

4. In "The House of the Beehives", what crime was committed? Describe it.

5. In "Man in the Wasteland", how does Baciccin ruin hunting for the boy and his father?

6. What is the story "Mine Field" about?

7. In "Lazy Sons", what does Pietro think of his brother, Andrea? Why is this ironic?

8. In "Hunger in Bevera", what happens to Bisma?

9. In "One of the Three is Still Alive", how does the one man escape?

10. Describe Baciccin of "Man in the Wasteland".

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What literary technique did you feel the author used most effectively in this book?

Essay Topic 2

Explain why each of the stories in "Stories of Love and Loneliness" are indeed stories of love and loneliness.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how the main characters in

1) "The Adventure of a Photographer"

2) "The Adventure of a Traveler" and

3) "The Adventure of a Reader"

neglect to focus on reality. Discuss how and why this is important.

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