Collected Fictions Test | Final Test - Easy

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Collected Fictions Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "August 25, 1983," what hotel room does Borges go to?
(a) The room is numberless.
(b) 63.
(c) 19.
(d) 49.

2. In "Ragnarok," what happens to the Gods who reappear?
(a) They are shot.
(b) They are worshipped.
(c) They quickly disappear again, for Christianity forces them out.
(d) They become regular people.

3. In "The Maker," what does the father give the protagonist when he is a boy?
(a) An emerald.
(b) A shield.
(c) A knife.
(d) A book of poetry.

4. In "The Other Duel," though Cardosa and Silveira have a long-standing feud, what do they both do?
(a) Write a novel together.
(b) Join a rebel force.
(c) Open a store together.
(d) Fish together every Saturday.

5. In "Undr," what does Ulf do to avoid execution?
(a) Creates a map of some unknown territory.
(b) Compses a poem in praise of the king.
(c) Becomes the king's court jester.
(d) Volunteers to join the army.

6. In "In Memoriam, JFK," JFK's assassination is similar to what event?
(a) The details of an O'Henry short story.
(b) The murder of the President of Uruguay in 1897.
(c) The exact same event on an alternate planet.
(d) An assassination that occurs in a mirror in a labyrinth.

7. In "The Maker," what physical problem is the protagonist going through?
(a) He is losing the use of his left arm.
(b) He has jaundice.
(c) He is going deaf.
(d) He is going blind.

8. Which of the following best describes the theme of "Mutations"?
(a) Objects used for death often become symbols for different things.
(b) The connotations of words are extremely hard to alter.
(c) Mankind will change into something radically different because of scientific experiments.
(d) Writing will become superfluous because people will communicate telepathically.

9. In "Avelino Arredondo," to what does Avelino belong?
(a) A shadowy cabal.
(b) The White Party.
(c) The Red party.
(d) The Calvinists.

10. In "The Book of Sand," what does the narrator do with the book at the end?
(a) He places it in a room of mirrors to endlessly replicate the book.
(b) He hides it in the National Library.
(c) Though it is infinite, he magically reads it in his lifetime.
(d) He burns it.

11. In "Brodie's Report," who are the Yahoos?
(a) A type of wild man living in the forset among the ape men.
(b) Borges's pet name for his extended family.
(c) A society of scholars who study Swift..
(d) People who are overly enthusiastic.

12. In "The Sect of Thirty," the sect worships which Biblical figure?
(a) Judas.
(b) Solomon.
(c) Ahab.
(d) Cain.

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

14. In "August 25, 1983," what is the young Borges told?
(a) He has never been a writer.
(b) The time of his death.
(c) He will write his great book.
(d) He has committed blasphemy.

15. In "Parable of Cervantes and Don Quixote," Cervantes can best be described as which of the following?
(a) Unaware of the future recognition of his fictional character, Don Quixote.
(b) Insane.
(c) Despondent, for he believes art is useless.
(d) Young and arrogant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "The Rose of Paracelsus," what does the young man want Paracelsus to do?

3. In "The Ethnographer," what does Fred Murdock do with the secret he learns from the Indians?

4. In "The Gospel According to Mark," what does Baltasar do with the Gutres' English Bible?

5. In "Blue Tigers," what are the Blue Tigers?

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