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Magical realism trivia

Macondo, Comala, Woland's Moscow and Saleem Sinai's Bombay: trivia on novels where the impossible drifts into daily life and nobody blinks. García Márquez, Rulfo, Allende, Rushdie, Morrison, Bulgakov, Murakami and more.

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  1. Colson Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, in 2017 and again in 2020.

    • True
    • False
  2. What was Julio Cortázar's first short story collection, published in 1951?

    • Todos los fuegos el fuego
    • Final del juego
    • Las armas secretas
    • Bestiario
  3. In "No oyes ladrar los perros" (The Burning Plain), what does the father carry on his back?

    • His wife's coffin
    • His wounded grown son
    • A sack of corn
    • A foundling child
  4. In "Midnight's Children", in what kind of factory does Saleem end up working?

    • A printing works
    • A soap factory
    • A pickle factory
    • A cotton mill
  5. Which priest falls in love with Sierva María?

    • Juan Manuel Delgado
    • Abrenuncio de Sá Pereira Cao
    • Toribio de Cáceres
    • Cayetano Delaura
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