Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra Page A

much as us them, Zambra reminds, with the power and intensity of a writer who grew up in the shadow of a terrible war.”
    â€”
The Boston Globe
    â€œFunny, contemplative, and quietly moving,
Ways of Going Home
pulls off the intoxicating trick of making the world feel smaller in its familiar touchstones found in a time of unique tragedy.”
    â€”
Los Angeles Times
    â€œComplex yet sophisticated, [
Ways of Going Home
] places Zambra at the spearhead of a new Chilean fiction and sets him alongside other Latin American writers such as Colombia’s Juan Gabriel Vásquez, who weave some of the continent’s most difficult historical themes into an exciting modern art form.”
    â€”
The Guardian
(London)
    â€œI envy Alejandro the obvious sophistication and exquisite beauty of the pages you are about to read, a work which is filled with the heartfelt vulnerability of testimony. I loved it and I read it with the great joy of anticipation that one has reading a writer one hopes to read more and more of in the future.”
    â€”Edwidge Danticat,
Granta
    â€œI read all of Alejandro Zambra’s novels back-to-back because they were such good company. His books are like a phone call in the middle of the night from an old friend, and afterward, I missed the charming and funny voice on the other end, with its strange and beautiful stories.”
    â€”Nicole Krauss, author of
Great House

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    MULTIPLE CHOICE
    Alejandro Zambra is the author of the story collection
My Documents
, which was a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and three previous novels:
Ways of Going Home
,
The Private Lives of Trees
, and
Bonsai
. His books have been translated into more than ten languages. He has received numerous prizes in Chile, including the Chilean Literary Critics’ Award in 2007 and the National Book Council’s award for best novel in 2007 and 2012, as well as international distinctions such as the Prince Claus Award in Holland. His stories have appeared in
The New Yorker
,
The Paris Review
,
Harper’s
,
Tin House
, and
McSweeney’s
, among others. In 2010, he was named one of
Granta’
s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. A 2015–2016 Cullman Center fellow at the New York Public Library, he divides his time between New York and Santiago, Chile.
    Megan McDowell is a Spanish language literary translator from Richmond, Kentucky. With the exception of
Bonsai
, she has translated all of Zambra’s books. She lives in Santiago,Chile.

ALSO BY ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA
    Bonsai
    The Private Lives of Trees
    Ways of Going Home
    MyDocuments



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Facsimil
by Editorial Huerders, Santiago de Chile.
    A selection from this book appeared in
The New Yorker
under the title “Reading Comprehension: Test No. 1.”
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For my teachers Juan Luis Morales Rojas, Elizabeth Azócar, Ricardo Ferrada, and SoledadBianchi

I. EXCLUDED TERM
    In exercises 1 through 24, mark the answer that corresponds to