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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In "Pedro Salvadores," Pedro belongs to which party?
(a) The Whigs.
(b) The Unitarian party.
(c) The Aristotlean Thinkers.
(d) The Nazi party.

4. 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 his character John Vincent Moon.
(d) Borges and an unknown narrator.

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

6. 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) Writing will become superfluous because people will communicate telepathically.
(d) Mankind will change into something radically different because of scientific experiments.

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

8. 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 has committed blasphemy.
(d) He will write his great book.

9. In "The Gospel According to Mark," what does Baltasar do with the Gutres' English Bible?
(a) Steals it and sells it.
(b) Uses it to prove the Bible's many historical errors.
(c) Hides it from them.
(d) Translates it into Spanish.

10. In "Juan Murana," what is the name the aunt uses for the knife that kills the landlord?
(a) Gold Death.
(b) The Sting.
(c) Juan.
(d) El Tiburon.

11. In "The Disk," what god is associated with the disk?
(a) Odin.
(b) Thor.
(c) Isis.
(d) Vishnu.

12. In "The Other," who does a 70-year-old Borges converse with?
(a) An 18year-old version of himself.
(b) His immortal soul.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Virgil.

13. 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) People who are overly enthusiastic.
(d) Borges's pet name for his extended family.

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

15. "Brodie's Report" can best be described as which of the following?
(a) A critique of Islam.
(b) An explication of Swift's "Gulliver's Travels."
(c) A satire on civilization.
(d) An auto-biographical short story based on Borges's family.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Undr," what does Ulf do to avoid execution?

2. In "Delia Elena San Marco," what does the narrator wonder after the death of his beloved?

3. In "A Weary Man's Utopia," in what language does the narrator speak to the man from the future?

4. In "The Bribe," what does Dr. Winthrop have to do?

5. In "Museum--On Exactitude in Science," how big are the maps of the Empire?

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