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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Blue Tigers," what are the Blue Tigers?
(a) Mysterious stones.
(b) Members of a religious sect.
(c) Arguments that employ specious reasoning.
(d) Mythological tigers made of ice.

2. In "The Maker," the protagonist is what Greek writer?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Homer.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Sophocles.

3. In "Parable of the Palace," why does the Emperor execute the poet?
(a) His poetry is simply empty flattery of the Emperor, and the Emperor hates flatterers.
(b) For "stealing" his palace by capturing it in a poem.
(c) His poetry is awful.
(d) His poetry reveals the poets love of the Emperor's wife.

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

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

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

7. In "A Weary Man's Utopia," in what language does the narrator speak to the man from the future?
(a) Latin.
(b) Russian.
(c) English.
(d) Spanish.

8. 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.

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

10. In "There are More Things," who seems to inhabit the narrator's deceased uncle's house?
(a) The ghost of his uncle.
(b) Aliens.
(c) The narrator's double.
(d) A society of atheists.

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

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

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

14. What does the narrator hypothesize is the cause of the fight in "The Encounter"?
(a) Uriarte suspected Duncan of having an affair with his wife.
(b) They thought the knives were plastic and they were performing a scene from a play.
(c) The knives themselves were behind the fight.
(d) The two man had hated each other for life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Undr," though the people are barbarous, they claim to be what?

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

3. In "The Congress," why does the Congress fall apart?

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

5. In "The Interloper," which of the following best characterizes the treatment of Julia by the two brothers?

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