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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Book of Sand: Part III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Legend," what does Abel do to Cain?
(a) He murders Cain.
(b) He forgives him.
(c) He never sees him, as Cain is in Hell.
(d) He flees from his presence.

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

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

4. In "The Garden of Forking Paths," who has Dr. Yu arrested?
(a) Pierre Menard.
(b) Dr. Yu turns himself in at the police station.
(c) Richard Madden.
(d) Dr. Albert, affiliated with the police, handcuffs Yu before he dies.

5. In "Dreamtigers," the protagonist can see only little tigers, what kind does he want to see?
(a) Supernatural tigers.
(b) The Siberian tiger.
(c) He doesn't want to see any tigers.
(d) Tigers with mirrors around their necks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Guayaquil," what do the narrator and Professor Zimmerman compete for?

2. In "The Aleph," where is the Aleph located?

3. In "In Memoriam, JFK," JFK's assassination is similar to what event?

4. 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?

5. In "The Writing of God," what happens to Tzinacan?

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