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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the city Casares where was born?
(a) Buenos Aires.
(b) Seoul.
(c) Sao Paulo.
(d) Madrid.

2. What is the name of the Japanese cruiser that finds the dead crew of a ship?
(a) Oshkido.
(b) Cornea.
(c) Namura.
(d) Samurai.

3. What torments the author in the southern part of the island?
(a) Children.
(b) Mosquitoes.
(c) Women.
(d) Asps.

4. What do Casares's friends call him?.
(a) Adolfo.
(b) Bioy.
(c) Addy.
(d) Boyo.

5. What does Borges say Joyce's Ulysses is rather than a masterpiece?
(a) An end.
(b) A beginning.
(c) A promise.
(d) A failure.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator decide he must build a shelter?

2. Which Edgar Allan Poe story does the writer reference in the introduction?

3. What is the name of the writer with whom Casares developed a close friendship?

4. What is the name of Eliseo Subiela's metaphysical film?

5. What kind of novel does Borges say is formless?

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