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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator say the people look like from where he is standing?
(a) Imps.
(b) Elves.
(c) Giants.
(d) Insects.

4. Where does the narrator say he is afraid to return?
(a) The supermarket.
(b) The mansion.
(c) The church.
(d) The museum.

5. Which of the following poets wrote epic poetry?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Verlaine.
(c) Chesterton.
(d) Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Japanese cruiser that finds the dead crew of a ship?

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

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

4. Why does the Italian say the Rockefeller Institute never visit the island?

5. What kind of novel does Borges say is formless?

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