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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Book of Sand: Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero," what does the historian, Ryan, do when he discovers the truth behind the assassination?
(a) He runs for office in Ireland.
(b) He stages his own assassination.
(c) He villifies Kilpatrick and writes a polemic against him.
(d) He withholds the truth and writes a book in praise of Kilpatrick.

2. Thematically, "Pierre Menard, Author of Quixote" deals most closely with which of the following?
(a) The evils of plagiarism.
(b) The inferiority of the novel as an art form.
(c) Borges's thinly disguised self-hatred.
(d) The nature of literary criticism and the issues surrounding interpretation.

3. In "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv," Hakim's religious sect hates what things?
(a) Mirrors and copulation.
(b) Gloves.
(c) Bibles.
(d) Knives.

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 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.

5. In "The Zahir," how does the narrator rid himself of the coin?
(a) He spends it.
(b) He never gets rid of it.
(c) He loses it.
(d) He puts it in a bowl of coins to forget the original.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Other Death," how does the author suggest that Damian could be both a hero and a coward?

2. In "The Congress," why does the Congress fall apart?

3. In "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths," what is the labyrinth in which the King of Babylon is imprisoned?

4. In "Pierre Menard, Author of Quixote," which author is Menard most obsessed with?

5. In "There are More Things," who seems to inhabit the narrator's deceased uncle's house?

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