Magic Realism: But is it Magic Realism? Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Magic Realism? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which work begins, "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin"?
One Hundred Years of Solitude
"The Library of Babel"
Metamorphosis
Labyrinths
Q. Who coined the term "Marvelous Reality"?
Alejo Carpentier
Jorge Luis Borges
Arturo Uslar-Pietri
Mario Vargas Llosa
Q. Which novel begins, "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice"?
The House of the Spirits
Midnight's Children
Labyrinths
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Q. In which novel does the narrator state, "[t]he country in this story is not Pakistan, or not quite"?
Shame
Satanic Verses
Midnight's Children
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Q. In which novel does the narrator state, "[I]n those elder days, fukú had it good; it even had a hypeman of sorts, a high priest, you could say. Our then dictator-for-life Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina"?
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The House of the Spirits
The Famished Road
The Tin Drum