Multiple Choice

[Kenneth]

For all that the structure is a gimmick, I'm really enjoying this book. It's impressive how hard a single question can hit you if you're paying attention. It is difficult to pick up the narrative thread until quite late, if you can pick it up at all, but it all relates to the themes of family, love, and life under the Pinochet Dictatorship.

I'm having difficulty getting to the Chilean websites that have information about the Academic Aptitude Test and its replacement, the University Selection Exam. I did find this somewhat sketchy website that looks to give a good overview of the test.

I wish I had handed out photocopies of an answer key, so we could all fill in our answers and compare them. I will have copies at the help desk, if you want to pick one up, though.

My favorite question so far is #44. I answered E, but that's the only help I'll give you.

[Lucy]

Almost against my will, I'm loving this book too! So far my fav questions are #30, 36, 59 and 62. Many of the questions with their possible answers are like mini-short stories, and those that deal with the woman (women? wife? girlfriend?) he has loved & lost are little jewels. I'm leaving for SW Mich again tomorrow am, for a wk, so will miss what should be a very cool (i.e., HOT) discussion; wish I didn't have to be gone, but my oldest brother needs someone to stay with him. See you all, I hope, in Sept.

[Gulliver]

Came across a short interview the author gave in the New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

[Readridinghood]

Hi Kenny. As you know, I could not get the book, but I am looking forward to the discussion. Elaine has graciously offered to provide my transportation tonight. See you there !