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

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

3. In "The Rose of Paracelsus," what does the young man want Paracelsus to do?
(a) Turn a rose into gold.
(b) Simply appreciate the beauty of a rose.
(c) Turn one rose into a thousand.
(d) Burn a rose and then recreate it.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In "The Book of Sand," what does the narrator do with the book at the end?

4. In "Blue Tigers," what are the Blue Tigers?

5. In "The Maker," the protagonist is what Greek writer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In "Undr," is there any suggestion that "Undr" or "wonder" really isn't the only sacred word of the Urns?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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