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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "A Weary Man's Utopia," how old is the man from the future?
(a) 3, with scientific advances, humans reach maturity extremely early.
(b) 35.
(c) 100.
(d) 400.

2. In "Delia Elena San Marco," what does the narrator wonder after the death of his beloved?
(a) If her death was more painful than she let on.
(b) Whether he can speak to her soul again.
(c) Why he ever loved her in the first place.
(d) If she secretly despised him.

3. In "Shakespeare's Memory," what do Shakespeare's memories do for Hermann?
(a) Allow him to become the reigning poet of the earth.
(b) Make him realize Shakespeare's inadequacy, and how Shakespeare had somehow duped countless millions into believing in his greatness.
(c) Make him catatonic.
(d) Give him some very small success, but mostly overwhelm him.

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

5. In "Ulrikke," what happens between the narrator and Ulrikke?
(a) They switch identities.
(b) The narrator pursues her around the world.
(c) They casually sleep together.
(d) They have a brutal knife fight.

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

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

8. In "The Congress," why does the Congress fall apart?
(a) Internal political battles ruin it.
(b) All its members mysteriously fall ill.
(c) It is disbanded by some Socialists.
(d) Its founder goes bankrupt.

9. What idea is the main concern of "Paradiso, XXXI, 108"?
(a) Giving a detailed description of Heaven.
(b) Putting forth an analysis of Dante.
(c) Experiencing and seeing God.
(d) The absolute misery of life.

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

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

12. In "Museum--On Exactitude in Science," how big are the maps of the Empire?
(a) The size of regular maps.
(b) As big as the Empire.
(c) They can only be seen with microscopes.
(d) The size of stamps.

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

14. In "Inferno, I, 32," what does God tell Dante in a dream?
(a) He doesn't like Dante's version of Purgatory.
(b) The exact day of his death.
(c) The prurpose of his life.
(d) How to finish some poetry.

15. In "The Plot," a gaucho's murder is similar to the murder of what famous figure?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) The Archduke Ferdinand.
(d) Julius Caesar.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Book of Sand," what does the narrator do with the book at the end?

2. In "Juan Murana," what is the name the aunt uses for the knife that kills the landlord?

3. In "Argumentum Ornitholicum," if the number of birds is indefinite, what is implied?

4. In "Brodie's Report," who are the Yahoos?

5. In "A Dialog Between Dead Men," though dead, Quiroga is still angry at whom?

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