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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about the characters in The Secret Mirror?
(a) They have all won the lottery.
(b) They are all silent.
(c) They are siblings.
(d) They do not actually exist.

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. How does Pierre Menard describe "Don Quixote"?
(a) An essential work of literature.
(b) The work of an amateur.
(c) Trite and meaningless.
(d) As an important work of literature.

4. To whom does the protagonist in "The Circular Ruins" pray?
(a) No one.
(b) The sun.
(c) The moon and stars.
(d) The planetary gods.

5. Who is the narrator of "The Babylon Lottery"?
(a) A member of the Company.
(b) A lottery player.
(c) The leader of the Company.
(d) A visitor to the land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is The Secret Mirror?

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

3. Why is it impossible to destroy all the books in the library?

4. How is the lottery unusual?

5. What does Ts'ui Pen wish to create before his death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why can't the inappropriate information in the library of Babel be destroyed?

2. What fear does the Company in "The Babylon Lottery" inspire?

3. Who are the Purifiers?

4. What causes some people in the library of Babel to go insane?

5. Why does Dr. Yu Tsun murder Dr. Albert?

6. What is discovered among the late Herbert Ashe's belongings?

7. Describe Pierre Menard.

8. Describe Dr. Yu Tsun.

9. In "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," what dispute arises from the discussion about mirrors?

10. Describe Al-Mu'tasim.

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