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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Morel name the museum 'the museum?'
(a) Because he thinsk he will have to exhibit his images.
(b) Because it has many old books.
(c) Because it looks like the London National Museum.
(d) Because it is based on a museum building.

2. What happens to the first flowers the narrator picks?
(a) They vanish.
(b) They fly away.
(c) They change color.
(d) They wilt.

3. What problem does the narrator have with the room where he sleeps that night?
(a) The pinks clash with the reds.
(b) He can't turn down the volume on the radio.
(c) He can't close the door.
(d) He can't turn off the light.

4. Why does the narrator begin to think Morel and Faustine are putting on a comic act for his benefit?
(a) They bump into things.
(b) They are always hiding.
(c) They ignore him.
(d) They are repeating words.

5. What does Faustine tell Morel she thinks he is?
(a) Evil.
(b) A genius.
(c) Mysterious.
(d) Loving.

6. What does Morel say is the name of the company with which he worked on his machine?
(a) The Heckeroth Company.
(b) The Snide Company.
(c) The Schwachter Company.
(d) The Schwein Company.

7. Why does the narrator think the two men he sees are ghosts?
(a) He can see through them.
(b) They don't react to him.
(c) They can't pick things up.
(d) They walk through him.

8. Why can't the narrator initially escape from the museum?
(a) He can't open the latches on the doors.
(b) There are dogs guarding the doors.
(c) Someone has tied him to his bed.
(d) He has been drugged.

9. Whose footsteps drive the narrator away?
(a) The rugseller's.
(b) Morel's.
(c) Faustine's.
(d) Borges'.

10. What does the man think is causing him to hallucinate?
(a) The air.
(b) The mushrooms.
(c) The water.
(d) The roots.

11. What does Morel say will happen after three days?
(a) He will hold a meeting.
(b) Faustine will have forgotten him.
(c) The soldiers will come.
(d) Everything will be over.

12. Morel compares his invention to what?
(a) The telephone, the DVD player and the cinema.
(b) The radio, the phonograph and the television.
(c) The beer, the stamp and the computer.
(d) The telegram, the wireless and the television.

13. What does the narrator scream at Morel to humiliate him?
(a) You have a hole in your pants.
(b) The woman is bald.
(c) The woman has a beard.
(d) Your zipper is undone.

14. What announces the beginning of dinner?
(a) A smashed glass.
(b) A scream.
(c) A gong.
(d) A trumpet.

15. How does the narrator think Morel's machine could be used to help people in a positive way?
(a) To resurrect dead people.
(b) To show people their mistakes.
(c) To take people back to their youth.
(d) To bring back extinct animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two people are absent from the meeting?

2. Why is the narrator certain that people have come back to the island?

3. About whom does the narrator dream in this section?

4. Who does the narrator think could be the director of the insane asylum?

5. Who does the narrator think has contracted the island's horrible disease?

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