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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro," what causes Tom's fake identity scheme to fall apart?
(a) The real person, whom Tom was impersonating, returns.
(b) Ebenezer Bogle runs out of ideas for perpetuating the fraud.
(c) Ebenezer Bogle's death.
(d) At the trial, a saavy lawyer produces papers demonstrating Tom can't be who he says he is.

2. In "The Zahir," what is his lover's sister obsessed with?
(a) Hats.
(b) Clouds.
(c) A coin.
(d) A Blue Tiger.

3. In "The South," where does Dahlmann go after he recovers from an illness?
(a) The United States.
(b) Peru.
(c) Mexico City.
(d) His ranch house.

4. In "The Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden," what is the attitude of the English woman who has married an Indian?
(a) She despises Indians.
(b) She has gone mad.
(c) She is thoroughly Indian herself now.
(d) She feigns assimilation with the Indians, but is still quite English.

5. In "The House of Asterion," Asterion kills how many people?
(a) 100 people a year.
(b) Asterion has killed no one.
(c) It's random.
(d) Nine men every nine years.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain," what work of Quain's is actually successful?

2. In "A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)," what is Tadeo's punishment for killing a man?

3. In "Averroes' Search," what concept or concepts can Averroes not comprehend?

4. In "Man on the Pink Corner," what does the Yardmaster challenge Rosendo to?

5. In "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv," Hakim is revealed to have what disease?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Averroes' Search," how is Borges' attempt to write of Averroes similar to Averroes own difficulties?

2. How can the story "Tlon, Uqbar, and Orbis Tertius" best be described?

3. In "The Aleph," what is the narrator's attitude toward Carlos Argentino?

4. "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" ends with the words, "Glory to Him who does not die." Who is the one "who does not die," and what is the reason for this invocation?

5. In "The Garden of Forking Paths," why does Dr. Yu work for the Germans?

6. In "The Wait," what does Villari do when his assassins actually show up? Why does he do this?

7. In "Death and the Compass," how does Scharlach defeat Lonnrot?

8. In "Monk Eastman Purveyor of Iniquities," what first stops Monk's criminal life of violence, and then what allows him to continue this violence in a new form?

9. In "The Widow Ching--Pirate," Ching becomes a pirate, but does she have any virtuous qualities, even in this criminal profession?

10. In "The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell," describe Lazarus' moral character.

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