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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 did the narrator find dead in the circular room?
(a) Babies.
(b) Fish.
(c) Birds.
(d) Sheep.

2. The essayist say Casares's novels are rich in what?
(a) Provoking images.
(b) Bizarre character sketches.
(c) Surreal imagination.
(d) Reasoned imagination.

3. Casares is from what country?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Chile.
(d) Spain.

4. In which room does the narrator say he made discoveries on two separate occasions?
(a) The basement.
(b) The loft.
(c) The dining room.
(d) The library.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think he needs to do to come back alive?

2. When does the narrator say he likes to hunt?

3. What are the Spanish poets and intellectuals fleeing in the 30s?

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

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

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