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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Argumentum Ornitholicum," if the number of birds is indefinite, what is implied?
(a) God exists.
(b) God does not exist.
(c) The end of the world is at hand.
(d) Math has no use.

2. In "Pedro Salvadores," Pedro belongs to which party?
(a) The Aristotlean Thinkers.
(b) The Unitarian party.
(c) The Nazi party.
(d) The Whigs.

3. In "The Maker," the protagonist is what Greek writer?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Homer.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Sophocles.

4. In "The Night of the Gits," who is The Captive?
(a) A prostitute.
(b) A man entranced by literature.
(c) A war prisoner.
(d) An innocent boy.

5. In "The Other," who does a 70-year-old Borges converse with?
(a) Virgil.
(b) An 18year-old version of himself.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) His immortal soul.

6. In "The Duel," though friends, Clara and Marta compete at what activity?
(a) Memorizing poetry.
(b) Painting.
(c) Playing the piano.
(d) Making themselves beautiful.

7. In "Undr," what does the sacred word of the Urns mean?
(a) Wonder.
(b) Warfare.
(c) God.
(d) Mirror.

8. What is the event in "The Elderly Lady"?
(a) Her 100th birthday.
(b) Her 90th birthday.
(c) The Day of the Dead.
(d) Christmas.

9. In "The Book of Sand," what does the narrator do with the book at the end?
(a) He burns it.
(b) He places it in a room of mirrors to endlessly replicate the book.
(c) He hides it in the National Library.
(d) Though it is infinite, he magically reads it in his lifetime.

10. In "A Dialogue About a Dialogue," what interrupts the dialogue?
(a) The narrator remembers he has to catch a train.
(b) One of the speakers becomes suddenly ill.
(c) A noise.
(d) The talkers run out of things to say.

11. In "A Weary Man's Utopia," how old is the man from the future?
(a) 35.
(b) 3, with scientific advances, humans reach maturity extremely early.
(c) 400.
(d) 100.

12. In "Legend," what does Abel do to Cain?
(a) He forgives him.
(b) He murders Cain.
(c) He flees from his presence.
(d) He never sees him, as Cain is in Hell.

13. In "A Dialog Between Dead Men," though dead, Quiroga is still angry at whom?
(a) His father.
(b) Simon Bolivar.
(c) The dictator Rosas.
(d) Himself.

14. In "Blue Tigers," what are the Blue Tigers?
(a) Arguments that employ specious reasoning.
(b) Members of a religious sect.
(c) Mysterious stones.
(d) Mythological tigers made of ice.

15. In "Undr," what does Ulf do to avoid execution?
(a) Becomes the king's court jester.
(b) Volunteers to join the army.
(c) Compses a poem in praise of the king.
(d) Creates a map of some unknown territory.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In Memoriam, JFK," JFK's assassination is similar to what event?

2. In "There are More Things," who seems to inhabit the narrator's deceased uncle's house?

3. In "Blue Tigers," what do the Blue Tigers do to the narrator?

4. In "Everything and Nothing," which of the following best describes Shakespeare?

5. In "The Sect of Thirty," the sect worships which Biblical figure?

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