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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character dies at the end of "The End"?
(a) The store owner's son.
(b) The black man.
(c) The store owner.
(d) The stranger.

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

3. In "The South," how does the man cut his forehead?
(a) By falling in a field.
(b) He is hit by a falling brick.
(c) He walks into a door.
(d) In a fist fight.

4. What do the narrator and Ireneo Funes discuss?
(a) Funes' hyper-awareness.
(b) His sister.
(c) The war.
(d) Funes' paralysis.

5. Where does Jaromir Hladik live?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Prague.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Warsaw.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Death and the Compass," why do the police believe the rabbi was murdered?

2. According to the narrator, what is the most important theme of "The Approach of Al-Mu'tasim"?

3. Why does Scharlach lead Erik Lonnrot to the location of the fourth murder?

4. How are the three murders in "Death and the Compass" related?

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

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