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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Widow Ching--Pirate," what prompts the protagonist to become a pirate?
(a) The murder of her husband.
(b) She is obsessed with the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
(c) She is brainwashed by another pirate.
(d) After knitting a pirate flag, she strangely decides she has to actually use it.

2. In "Averroes' Search," what happens to Averroes at the end?
(a) He looks into a mirror and disappears.
(b) He condemns Aristotle as a "savage."
(c) He drowns.
(d) He converts to Judaism.

3. In "A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)," what happens to Tadeo's attitude toward the fugitive he pursues?
(a) His hatred of the man grows, until he not only wants the man dead, he wants all his associates dead.
(b) He doggedly pursues him, and wants nothing else in life, but to catch the man.
(c) He grows bored of the search and doesn't care one way or the other if the man escapes.
(d) His desire to catch the man turns to empathy, and he wants to help the man.

4. In "The Theologians," what do the Monotoni believe?
(a) God is malevolent.
(b) Everything in history repeats itself.
(c) Nothing in history truly repeats itself.
(d) Good works, and not faith, are the path to salvation.

5. In "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim," what does the law student think he has done that causes him to live in exile with India's most wretched populace?
(a) Killed a Hindu.
(b) Killed a Muslim.
(c) Committed blasphemy.
(d) Committed adultery.

6. In "The South," where does Dahlmann go after he recovers from an illness?
(a) Mexico City.
(b) Peru.
(c) His ranch house.
(d) The United States.

7. In "A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain," what work of Quain's is actually successful?
(a) "The Lament of Euripides."
(b) "Lo, lo, the Westward Crowd."
(c) "April March."
(d) "Herbert Quain: Autobiography in Verse."

8. In "The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero," Kilpatrick participates in his own assassination for which of the following reasons?
(a) His family will be killed if he doesn't go through with it.
(b) He has no reason: he has no idea he will be killed.
(c) He wants to remain a national hero to the Irish.
(d) He wants to commit suicide without his death being on his own hands.

9. Which of the following best describes "Ibn-Hakam-Al Bokhari, Murdered in his Labyrinth"?
(a) It is realistic.
(b) It is a fantasy story that requires a suspension of disbelief.
(c) It is intendend as a precise moral lesson, with unambiguous instruction.
(d) It is a comedy meant to amuse children.

10. In "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv," Hakim's religious sect hates what things?
(a) Knives.
(b) Bibles.
(c) Mirrors and copulation.
(d) Gloves.

11. In "The Lottery in Babylon," who sometimes arbitrates the result of a lottery drawing?
(a) A panel of nine judges.
(b) The populace does a general vote.
(c) The king.
(d) A soothsayer who lives atop a mountain.

12. In "The Chamber of Statues," where is the king warned not to go?
(a) Russia.
(b) On a ship.
(c) To a bazaar.
(d) The Tower.

13. In "The Man on the Threshold," how is the story the narrator hears relevant?
(a) The narrator discovers an important family secret.
(b) The story informs the narrator that the disappearance of the judge is just a hoax.
(c) The past event exactly mirrors the fate of the judge.
(d) The narrator discovers he is out of his jurisdiction.

14. In "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths," whom does the King of Babylon imprison in a labyrinth?
(a) His manservant.
(b) A notorious murderer.
(c) The King of England.
(d) The King of Arabia.

15. In "The Theologians," whose doctrine does Aurelian want to defeat?
(a) St. Augustine's.
(b) Martin Luther's.
(c) John of Pannonia's.
(d) The Pope's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Mahomed's Double," what happens when the Muslims see a vision of Mohamed?

2. In "Ibn-Hakam-Al Bokhari, Murdered in his Labyrinth," Sa'id tells the preacher that he is afraid of what?

3. In "The End," whom is the black man waiting for?

4. In "The Writing of God," how can Tzinacan escape?

5. In "The Dead Man," who does Otalora want to replace as leader of the gang?

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