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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who once called calls Bioy the secret master?
(a) Greene.
(b) Marquez.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Borges.

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

4. Borges and Casares write about the virtues of what food product?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Butter.
(c) Quark.
(d) Yoghurt.

5. What is the name of the writer with whom Casares developed a close friendship?
(a) Jorge Luis Borges.
(b) Peter Robinson.
(c) Garbriel Marcia Marquez.
(d) Henry James.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What country does Bioy see as his second home?

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