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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Artifices, Death and the Compass.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the people of Tlon consider to be the most powerful tool mankind can possess?
(a) Water.
(b) The mind.
(c) Time.
(d) Reflection.

2. Who is Herbert Ashe?
(a) The narrator.
(b) An acquaintance of the narrator's family.
(c) A famous author.
(d) A manufacturer of mirrors.

3. Who is most likely the traitor that Fergus Kilpatrick sentences to death?
(a) Ryan.
(b) James Alexander Nolan.
(c) Fergus Kilpatrick.
(d) The narrator.

4. In "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", what topic is the narrator discussing when the subject of the encyclopedia is brought up?
(a) Time.
(b) Mirrors.
(c) Books.
(d) Rivers.

5. Who is Dr. Yu Tsun?
(a) A spy.
(b) A professor.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A statesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is The Secret Mirror?

2. What war is being fought in "The Garden of Forking Paths"?

3. Who does Dr. Yu Tsun shoot?

4. In what languages are the books of "The Library of Babel" written?

5. Who is Ryan?

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