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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 44 through 62.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman watch every afternoon?
(a) The dancing girls.
(b) The ducks.
(c) The television.
(d) The sunset.

2. About whom does the narrator dream in this section?
(a) Faustine.
(b) Morel.
(c) His sister.
(d) The rug seller.

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

4. What are the group's favorite two records?
(a) Tea for Two and Valencia.
(b) A Road to Nowhere and Carnage.
(c) Frogs and Viva.
(d) One More Cup of Coffee and Sevilla.

5. What concept does the narrator say he finds delightful?
(a) The fact Faustine is in love with him.
(b) The fact he may be dead.
(c) The fact he could have found his soulmate.
(d) The fact he could be a genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the narrator see from the marshlands?

2. Which one of Bioy's stories does the writer mention in the introduction?

3. What is the narrator looking for when he makes his first discovery?

4. What is the title of the essay Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote in 1925?

5. What wakes the narrator from his sleep?

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