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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Page 25 through 43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The people on the mountainside are unmindful of what kind of creature?
(a) Scorpions.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Rats.
(d) Tigers.

2. What is the title of the essay Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote in 1925?
(a) The Dehumanization of Art.
(b) The Interest in Fantastic Fiction.
(c) The Rhythm of the Artist.
(d) The Human Factor.

3. The narrator says the men violate the sanctity of what?
(a) Churches and cemeteries.
(b) Family and Religion.
(c) Corn fields and orchards.
(d) Forests and deserts.

4. What kind of poetry does Bioy favor?
(a) Sonnets.
(b) Epic poetry.
(c) Limericks.
(d) Lyrical poetry.

5. What kind of poetry does Borges favor?
(a) Limericks.
(b) Lyrical poetry.
(c) Sonnets.
(d) Epic poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the first flowers the narrator picks?

2. Which of the following creatures can one find in the swimming pool?

3. What is the narrator looking for when he makes his first discovery?

4. What does the author say he is bathed in after two or three minutes out of the pool?

5. Who translated the 1964 American edition of the Invention of Morel?

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