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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following words does the author use to describe Bioy's personality?
(a) Shy.
(b) Happy-go-lucky.
(c) Devious.
(d) Loopy.

2. What is the name of Eliseo Subiela's metaphysical film?
(a) Gross Misconduct.
(b) Man Facing Southeast.
(c) Doing For the Sake of It.
(d) The Grand Illusion.

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

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

5. Which of the following poets wrote lyrical poems?
(a) Stevenson.
(b) Whitman.
(c) Poe.
(d) Verlaine.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the name of the novel Bioy writes after the Invention of Morel?

5. Who once called calls Bioy the secret master?

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