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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 "A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain," Quain's work can best be described as which of the following?
(a) Seemingly pornographic, but with a religious message embedded within.
(b) Coded to teach medical students how to perform surgery.
(c) Straightforward.
(d) Bizarrely structured, and based on outrageous and esoteric themes.

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

3. 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?
(a) Killed a Hindu.
(b) Committed blasphemy.
(c) Killed a Muslim.
(d) Committed adultery.

4. In "Death and the Compass," what character flaw leads Lonnrot to his death?
(a) Stupidity.
(b) Drunkenness.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Intellectual pride.

5. In "The Lottery in Babylon," who sometimes arbitrates the result of a lottery drawing?
(a) The king.
(b) A panel of nine judges.
(c) A soothsayer who lives atop a mountain.
(d) The populace does a general vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thematically, "Pierre Menard, Author of Quixote" deals most closely with which of the following?

2. In "The Shape of the Sword," John Vincent Moon is a traitor to what ideology?

3. In "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv," Hakim is revealed to have what disease?

4. In "Mahomed's Double," what happens when the Muslims see a vision of Mohamed?

5. In "The Circular Ruins," other than the sorcerer himself, who knows about the content of his dreams?

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