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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 62 through 78.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the group's favorite two records?
(a) One More Cup of Coffee and Sevilla.
(b) Frogs and Viva.
(c) Tea for Two and Valencia.
(d) A Road to Nowhere and Carnage.

2. What does the narrator move out by the swimming pool?
(a) His bed.
(b) His oven.
(c) His bookshelf.
(d) His couch.

3. What happens to the first flowers the narrator picks?
(a) They wilt.
(b) They change color.
(c) They fly away.
(d) They vanish.

4. What kind of novel does Borges say is formless?
(a) A magical realist novel.
(b) A social novel.
(c) A psychological novel.
(d) A crime novel.

5. Why does the narrator think the people he sees are a group of eccentrics?
(a) They are wearing warm clothes.
(b) They are dancing around a fire.
(c) They are wearing clothes from another era.
(d) They are running around naked.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Morel choose Villings Island for his experiments?

2. Why does the narrator decide against killing himself?

3. What torments the author in the southern part of the island?

4. Which of the following does a group of white men build on the island?

5. Into what does the narrator say the paper he is writing is changing ?

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