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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. Who examines Pierre Menard's manuscripts?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Don Quixote.
(c) Miguel de Cervantes.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

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

3. What are Uqbar and Tlon?
(a) Books.
(b) Inventions.
(c) Foods.
(d) Men.

4. In "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", what country are the characters searching for in the The Anglo-American Encyclopedia?
(a) Zion.
(b) Uqbar.
(c) Tertius.
(d) Tlon.

5. In "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", what topic is the narrator discussing when the subject of the encyclopedia is brought up?
(a) Books.
(b) Rivers.
(c) Mirrors.
(d) Time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which measurement system is discussed in one of Pierre Menard's manuscripts?

2. In "The Circular Ruins", how does the protagonist travel to the ruins?

3. What body organ begins a dream of the protagonist in "The Circular Ruins"?

4. In "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", what is unique about the description of the country in the The Anglo-American Encyclopedia?

5. What is the name of the god of the temple in "The Circular Ruins"?

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