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

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

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

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

5. In "Dreamtigers," the protagonist can see only little tigers, what kind does he want to see?
(a) Supernatural tigers.
(b) The Siberian tiger.
(c) Tigers with mirrors around their necks.
(d) He doesn't want to see any tigers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "There are More Things," who seems to inhabit the narrator's deceased uncle's house?

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

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

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

5. In "The Yellow Rose," what does Marino FINALLY think about his poetry?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Unworthy," why does Fischbein, a mild-mannered and bookish man, hang around a gang?

2. In "Covered Mirrors," what is the narrator's attitude toward mirrors?

3. In "The Duel," what is the nature of the duel between Clara and Marta?

4. In "The Plot," a gaucho dies in a similar fashion to Julius Caesar. What does this suggest about history?

5. In "Everything and Nothing," who ultimately tells Shakespeare he is like him, and why does he say this?

6. What does "The Disk" say about greed?

7. What does "Shakespeare's Memory" say about creating art?

8. In "The Rose of Paracelsus," why doesn't Paracelsus turn the ashes of the rose into a rose for the young man?

9. In "The Yellow Rose," what is Marino's epiphany?

10. In "The Ethnographer," why won't Fred Murdock reveal the secret of the Indian tribe to the professor?

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