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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro," who convinces Tom to create a fake identity?
(a) Lady Tichbourne.
(b) Tom gets the idea himself.
(c) Ebenezer Bogle.
(d) Lady Tichbourne's son.

2. In "The Widow Ching--Pirate," what prompts the protagonist to become a pirate?
(a) After knitting a pirate flag, she strangely decides she has to actually use it.
(b) She is obsessed with the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
(c) She is brainwashed by another pirate.
(d) The murder of her husband.

3. In "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv," Hakim is revealed to have what disease?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Skin cancer.
(c) He has no disease.
(d) Leprosy.

4. In "The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan," who shoots Bill?
(a) The Sheriff.
(b) Another outlaw.
(c) The Deputy.
(d) An Apache warrior.

5. In "The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell," what stops Lazarus from completing his sinister plans?
(a) An upright uncle shows him the folly of his ways.
(b) Illness and death.
(c) He decides to become a politcian.
(d) He has a moral awakening.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Funes, His Memory," how is Funes crippled?

2. In "Pierre Menard, Author of Quixote," Menard wishes to do what?

3. In "Death and the Compass," what character flaw leads Lonnrot to his death?

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

5. In "The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero," what does the historian, Ryan, do when he discovers the truth behind the assassination?

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