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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Circular Ruins.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Pierre Menard describe the work of Edgar Allen Poe?
(a) The work of an amateur.
(b) Essential to literature.
(c) Verbose.
(d) Trite and meaningless.

2. From what point of view is "The Approach of Al-Mu'tasim" written?
(a) First person.
(b) Second person omniscient.
(c) Third person.
(d) Second person.

3. In "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", what is unique about the description of the country in the The Anglo-American Encyclopedia?
(a) It exists on only one copy of the encyclopedia.
(b) Mirrors there do not reflect images.
(c) The laws of nature have been reversed.
(d) It exists on two worlds.

4. What body organ begins a dream of the protagonist in "The Circular Ruins"?
(a) A heart.
(b) A hand.
(c) An eye.
(d) An ear.

5. What does the protagonist of "The Circular Ruins" dream of doing?
(a) Singing.
(b) Sewing.
(c) Building.
(d) Teaching.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the student searching for in "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim"?

2. Which Menard manuscript describes the possibility of a new vocabulary?

3. In "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim," who does the student speak with on top of the tower?

4. What does the protagonist of "The Circular Ruins" learn about himself?

5. What is unique about the objects from Tlon that are released into the narrator's world?

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