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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea is the main concern of "Paradiso, XXXI, 108"?
(a) Putting forth an analysis of Dante.
(b) The absolute misery of life.
(c) Experiencing and seeing God.
(d) Giving a detailed description of Heaven.

2. In "The Maker," what physical problem is the protagonist going through?
(a) He has jaundice.
(b) He is going deaf.
(c) He is losing the use of his left arm.
(d) He is going blind.

3. In "Undr," though the people are barbarous, they claim to be what?
(a) Ascetics.
(b) Virtuous pagans.
(c) Christian.
(d) Devout Muslims.

4. In "Delia Elena San Marco," what does the narrator wonder after the death of his beloved?
(a) If her death was more painful than she let on.
(b) Whether he can speak to her soul again.
(c) If she secretly despised him.
(d) Why he ever loved her in the first place.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Plot," a gaucho's murder is similar to the murder of what famous figure?

2. In "Parable of the Palace," why does the Emperor execute the poet?

3. In "Brodie's Report," who are the Yahoos?

4. In "Parable of Cervantes and Don Quixote," Cervantes can best be described as which of the following?

5. In "Argumentum Ornitholicum," if the number of birds is indefinite, what is implied?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Unworthy," why does Fischbein, a mild-mannered and bookish man, hang around a gang?

2. What does "The Disk" say about greed?

3. In "Borges and I," who are the two Borgeses, and what is the relationship between them?

4. In "The Interloper," do the Nelson brothers have any redeeming qualities?

5. In "The Ethnographer," why won't Fred Murdock reveal the secret of the Indian tribe to the professor?

6. In "The Yellow Rose," what is Marino's epiphany?

7. In "Everything and Nothing," who ultimately tells Shakespeare he is like him, and why does he say this?

8. Name some of the customs and beliefs of the strange group in "The Sect of Thirty."

9. In "Undr," is there any suggestion that "Undr" or "wonder" really isn't the only sacred word of the Urns?

10. In "The Plot," a gaucho dies in a similar fashion to Julius Caesar. What does this suggest about history?

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