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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Artifices, Three Versions of Judas.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the student searching for in "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim"?
(a) The blind astrologer.
(b) The Moslem family.
(c) A saint who walks the Earth.
(d) The Hindu family.

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

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

4. Which chess pieces are discussed in Menard's chess article?
(a) The queens.
(b) The bishop's pawns.
(c) The knights.
(d) The rook's pawns.

5. From what point of view is "The Library of Babel" written?
(a) Third person.
(b) Second person.
(c) First person.
(d) Second person omniscient.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what do scholars ascribe Nils Runeberg's odd beliefs?

2. In "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", what topic is the narrator discussing when the subject of the encyclopedia is brought up?

3. Who is the Man of the Book?

4. What fear does the protagonist of "The Circular Ruins" have for his son?

5. What happens to John Vincent Moon during the Irish rebellion?

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