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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does the Italian say the Rockefeller Institute never visit the island?
(a) The inhabitants are cannibals.
(b) It is sacred ground.
(c) It is the focal point of a mysterious disease.
(d) There is a war raging in its center.

4. The town of Bearn is in what country?
(a) France.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Belguim.
(d) Spain.

5. Which of the following titles does the narrator say he wants to use for one of his novels?
(a) Dedication is What We Need.
(b) Keeping Open to Life.
(c) Recognition.
(d) Apology for Survivors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the people look like from where he is standing?

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

3. The essayist say Casares's novels are rich in what?

4. What does Borges say Joyce's Ulysses is rather than a masterpiece?

5. What genre did Robert Stevenson think the British reading public scorned in 1880?

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