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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title of the essay Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote in 1925?
(a) The Rhythm of the Artist.
(b) The Interest in Fantastic Fiction.
(c) The Dehumanization of Art.
(d) The Human Factor.

3. What does the author say he is bathed in after two or three minutes out of the pool?
(a) Urine.
(b) Water.
(c) Love.
(d) Sweat.

4. What country does Bioy see as his second home?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) Germany
(d) Mexico.

5. What is the novel Casares wrote in 1934?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Jack.
(c) The New Storm.
(d) Beat It.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of product does La Martona produce?

2. What does the narrator say the people look like from where he is standing?

3. What is the name of the story the author says anticipates the Invention of Morel?

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

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

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