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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) Bioy.
(b) Adolfo.
(c) Addy.
(d) Boyo.

2. The town of Bearn is in what country?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Belguim.

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

4. Which one of Bioy's stories does the writer mention in the introduction?
(a) The Adventure of a Photographer in La Plata.
(b) The Invention that Changed the World.
(c) The Misadventurers of the Girl Who Hated Icecream.
(d) Family Ties and Other Assortments.

5. Which French novelist does Borges reference in the prologue?
(a) Andre Gide.
(b) Jean Paul Sartre.
(c) Albert Camus.
(d) Marcel Proust.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what language is the invention of Morel translated in 1953?

2. What does the narrator say it would have been practical to build out of stones?

3. What does the Italian in Calcutta sell?

4. Why does the narrator say he decided to go to the island despite of its dangers?

5. The narrator says the men violate the sanctity of what?

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