Multiple Choice (novel)

{{short description|2014 Chilean novel by Alejandro Zambra}}

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| image = Facsímil.jpg

| author = Alejandro Zambra

| pub_date = 2016

| country = Chile

| publisher = Penguin Books

| translator = Megan McDowell

| caption = The cover to the novel

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Multiple Choice ({{Langx|es|Facsímil|lit=Facsimile|translit=}}) is a novel published by the Chilean author Alejandro Zambra in 2014. Megan McDowell's English translation was published by Penguin Books in 2016. The novel uses the structure and questions of the Chilean Academic Aptitude Test as its organizing principle. Called both a work of parody and poetry, Multiple Choice examines the role of the education system and standardized testing in promoting compliance to authoritarian rule.{{Cite news |last=Novey |first=Idra |date=2016-08-26 |title=Fiction or Standardized Test? 'Multiple Choice' Is Both |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/books/review/multiple-choice-alejandro-zambra.html |access-date=2023-05-21 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |last=Vidal |first=Juan |date=July 23, 2016 |title='Multiple Choice' Is A) A Novel, B) In Test Form, C) Fascinating, D) All Of The Above |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/07/23/485864244/multiple-choice-is-a-a-novel-b-in-test-form-c-fascinating-d-all-of-the-above |website=NPR.org}}