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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Maker: Part IV, In Praise of Darkness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The House of Asterion," Asterion lives in a place that can best be described as which of the following?
(a) A stately mansion, with beautiful furniture, and ornate windows.
(b) One small windowless room.
(c) A forest.
(d) A series of endless corridors, or labyrinth.

2. In "The Writing of God," what animal is jailed next to Tzinacan?
(a) A monkey.
(b) A serpent.
(c) A jaguar.
(d) A parrot.

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 "Borges and I," who are the two characters?
(a) Borges and Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Borges the writer, and the personal Borges.
(c) Borges and an unknown narrator.
(d) Borges and his character John Vincent Moon.

5. In "The Theologians," what best describes Borges's characterization of theological disputes?
(a) They are pleasant means of expressing one's ideas.
(b) They are necessary and useful means of achieving immutable truth.
(c) They are clear-cut: there is a good side and a bad side.
(d) They are absurd, contradictory, and essentially lead to madness.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Aleph," why does the narrator lie about the Aleph?

2. In "A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain," what work of Quain's is actually successful?

3. In "Funes, His Memory," the powers of Funes can best be described as which of the following?

4. In "The Maker," the protagonist is what Greek writer?

5. In "The Widow Ching--Pirate," what prompts the protagonist to become a pirate?

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