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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Artifices, The Secret Miracle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What talent does Ireneo Funes possess?
(a) He always knows the correct time.
(b) He memorizes encyclopedias.
(c) He can create new languages.
(d) He can recite the entire dictionary.

2. What is exchanged for bits of bone or decorated parchment in "The Babylon Lottery"?
(a) Food.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Tickets.
(d) Money.

3. What happens to Jaromir Hladik at the end of "The Secret Miracle"?
(a) He escapes, but dies of typhus a few weeks later.
(b) He vanishes with the wind.
(c) He is executed.
(d) He escapes.

4. What does Ireneo Funes ask to borrow from the narrator?
(a) A coat.
(b) A pen.
(c) A scarf.
(d) Books.

5. Why does Ireneo Funes feel that language is futile?
(a) It is too full of contradictions.
(b) There are not enough differing words to describe objects.
(c) People do not listen when others speak.
(d) No one knows how to converse anymore.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ireneo Funes become paralyzed?

2. Why does the narrator have to leave his cousin's house?

3. What type of play is Jaromir Hladik writing?

4. From what point of view is "Funes, The Memorious" written?

5. What does Jaromir Hladik ask God for in a prayer?

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