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

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

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

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

5. In "Funes, His Memory," at what age does Funes die?
(a) 21.
(b) 19.
(c) The age of his death is not given.
(d) 40.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "The Mirror of Ink," what does the ruler want the sorcerer to show him?

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

4. In "The Mirror of Ink," what happens to the ruler from prying too deeply into a vision?

5. In "The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell," what stops Lazarus from completing his sinister plans?

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