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

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

3. In "The Maker," what does the father give the protagonist when he is a boy?
(a) An emerald.
(b) A shield.
(c) A book of poetry.
(d) A knife.

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

5. In "Blue Tigers," what do the Blue Tigers do to the narrator?
(a) They nearly drive him mad.
(b) They cause him to age backwards.
(c) They maul him.
(d) They slowly poison him.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In "The Rose of Paracelsus," what does the young man want Paracelsus to do?

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

5. In "August 25, 1983," what is the young Borges told?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Is there a contradiction to the argument in "Argumentum Ornithologicum"?

4. In "The Gospel According to Mark," why do the Gutres want to crucify Baltasar?

5. What is the message about scientific precision in "Museum- On Exactitude in Science"?

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

7. Name some of the customs and beliefs of the strange group in "The Sect of Thirty."

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

9. In "A Weary Man's Utopia," is the society described by the old man really a "utopia"?

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

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