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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 Approach to Al-Mu'tasim," who or what is Al-Mu'tasim supposed to be?
(a) A holy man.
(b) A sect of Islam.
(c) An obscure language.
(d) An magnificent oasis.

2. In "Death and the Compass," where is Dr. Yarmolinsky killed?
(a) A pool hall.
(b) In the streets.
(c) In a horse carriage.
(d) A Jewish Talmudic Conference.

3. In "The Writing of God," how can Tzinacan escape?
(a) By reading the fourteen words on the animal beside him.
(b) With a mysterious hacksaw he finds.
(c) By bribing one corrupt guard.
(d) By reciting the Bible.

4. 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 is thoroughly Indian herself now.
(b) She has gone mad.
(c) She despises Indians.
(d) She feigns assimilation with the Indians, but is still quite English.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Theologians," why is John of Pannonia killed?

2. In "Ibn-Hakam-Al Bokhari, Murdered in his Labyrinth," after killing his cousin, where does the protagonist sail?

3. "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim," can best be described as which of the following?

4. In "Funes, His Memory," at what age does Funes die?

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

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