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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Casares's friends call him?.
(a) Boyo.
(b) Bioy.
(c) Addy.
(d) Adolfo.

2. What country does Bioy see as his second home?
(a) France.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Germany
(d) England.

3. The town of Bearn is in what country?
(a) Belguim.
(b) France.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Spain.

4. Why does the Italian say the Rockefeller Institute never visit the island?
(a) There is a war raging in its center.
(b) It is sacred ground.
(c) It is the focal point of a mysterious disease.
(d) The inhabitants are cannibals.

5. Which of the following poets wrote lyrical poems?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Verlaine.
(c) Stevenson.
(d) Poe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator decide he must build a shelter?

2. Into what language is the invention of Morel translated in 1953?

3. What writer does Borges claim has superior plots?

4. What does the narrator say it would have been practical to build out of stones?

5. Why does the narrator say he decided to go to the island despite of its dangers?

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