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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Maker: Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden," what is the attitude of the English woman who has married an Indian?
(a) She despises Indians.
(b) She feigns assimilation with the Indians, but is still quite English.
(c) She has gone mad.
(d) She is thoroughly Indian herself now.

2. Which of the following best describes the theme of "Mutations"?
(a) Writing will become superfluous because people will communicate telepathically.
(b) Objects used for death often become symbols for different things.
(c) Mankind will change into something radically different because of scientific experiments.
(d) The connotations of words are extremely hard to alter.

3. In "The Dead Man," why does Otalora first have to leave Argentina?
(a) He seeks a cure for a strange disease.
(b) He has killed a man.
(c) He owes back taxes.
(d) He has slept with a woman whose husband pursues him.

4. In "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," what is Orbis Tertius?
(a) Herbert Ashe's code name.
(b) An undiscovered number.
(c) The trade name for a secret society that describes Tlon and Uqbar.
(d) The narrator's award for Latin, that he received in college.

5. In "Funes, His Memory," the powers of Funes can best be described as which of the following?
(a) Inconsequential: Funes might remember everything, but goes about his usual daily life.
(b) Maddening: from the onset of his heightened memory, Funes is simply stark, raving mad.
(c) Extremely useful: Funes makes an excellent living using the powers of his mind.
(d) A mixed blessing--he can do things such as easily learn languages, but he is also trapped by this glut of information.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Zahir," how does the narrator rid himself of the coin?

2. In "A Dialog Between Dead Men," though dead, Quiroga is still angry at whom?

3. In "Death and the Compass," where is Dr. Yarmolinsky killed?

4. In "The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero," which writer's work is partially a model for the assassination?

5. In "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim," what does the law student think he has done that causes him to live in exile with India's most wretched populace?

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