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

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

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

4. To whom is "There are More Things" dedicated?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) H.P. Lovecraft.
(d) Shakespeare.

5. What is the event in "The Elderly Lady"?
(a) The Day of the Dead.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Her 100th birthday.
(d) Her 90th birthday.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Gospel According to Mark," what does Baltasar do with the Gutres' English Bible?

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

3. In "Juan Murana," what is the name the aunt uses for the knife that kills the landlord?

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

5. In "Undr," what does the sacred word of the Urns mean?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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