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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Brodie's Report: Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Funes, His Memory," how is Funes crippled?
(a) A bookcase of heavy books topples on him.
(b) He falls from a roof.
(c) He is shot.
(d) A horseback riding injury.

2. In "Argumentum Ornitholicum," if the number of birds is indefinite, what is implied?
(a) God exists.
(b) The end of the world is at hand.
(c) Math has no use.
(d) God does not exist.

3. In "The Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden," who is Droctulft?
(a) A barbarian who, at first, strangely defends Rome, but comes to his senses, and attacks it.
(b) A barbarian who battles Rome to his dying day.
(c) A barbarian who once attacked the Roman Empire, and then defends it.
(d) A barbarian who continually runs from battle with Rome.

4. In "The Duel," though friends, Clara and Marta compete at what activity?
(a) Memorizing poetry.
(b) Playing the piano.
(c) Making themselves beautiful.
(d) Painting.

5. 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 is thoroughly Indian herself now.
(d) She has gone mad.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Dialogue About a Dialogue," what interrupts the dialogue?

2. In "The House of Asterion," Asterion lives in a place that can best be described as which of the following?

3. In "Emma Zunz," what does Emma pretend to be in order to complete her revenge?

4. In "The Theologians," what best describes Borges's characterization of theological disputes?

5. In "The Circular Ruins," what does the sorcerer do in his dreams?

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