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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What writer does Borges claim has superior plots?
(a) G.K. Chesterton.
(b) Fydor Dostoevsky.
(c) Patrica Highsmith.
(d) Graham Greene.

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

3. What does the narrator say it would have been practical to build out of stones?
(a) A barricade.
(b) An outdoor oven.
(c) A house.
(d) A toilet.

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

5. Why does the narrator think some people like to wear old clothes?
(a) To capture the magic of the past.
(b) As a statement against the present.
(c) They are easier to obtain.
(d) They are cheaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Casares's friends call him?.

2. What kind of poetry does Borges favor?

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

4. What is the name of the Japanese cruiser that finds the dead crew of a ship?

5. Borges and Casares write about the virtues of what food product?

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