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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. Where do they bury the player in Death of the Right Fielder?
(a) In a cemetery.
(b) On the field.
(c) Next to the field.
(d) In his backyard.

2. The author of One of These Days hails from where?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Argentina.
(c) Mexico.
(d) United States.

3. What does the zoo director in The Elephant decide to get as a cheaper alternative to a live elephant?
(a) An ocelot.
(b) An inflatable elephant.
(c) A robotic elephant.
(d) A wooden elephant.

4. Who is the author of House Opposite?
(a) R.K. Narayan
(b) Yasunari Kawabata.
(c) Josef Skvorecky.
(d) Mark Helprin.

5. Who wrote the story La Volpaia?
(a) Jamaica Kincaid.
(b) Mark Helprin.
(c) Joyce Carol Oates.
(d) Yasunari Kawabata.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of On Hope?

2. Where does the daughter of the lord die in The Blue Jar?

3. How old is the student in The Boy?

4. Who is the author of Weather in San Francisco?

5. In Iguana Hunting, a boy goes to the country to visit his cousin Chidra and who?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the central character in Don't You Blame Anyone and what is his central action in the narrative?

2. What is the taboo subject central in the story The Boy? How does the narrative play out?

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

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

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

6. What is the central theme in Gregory? How does the author represent this theme through the executioner in the narrative?

7. Describe the scene that is the central subject in Preparations? What does the author consider?

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

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

10. What is the setting of Blue? What is troubling the citizens in the narrative?

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