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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who translated the 1964 American edition of the Invention of Morel?
(a) Jack Johnson.
(b) Doreen Hopper.
(c) Davis P. D. Quip.
(d) Ruth L.C. Sims.

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

3. Which of the following is a summer resort?
(a) The Dales.
(b) Boxhagen.
(c) Marienbad.
(d) Potsdam.

4. What kind of poetry does Bioy favor?
(a) Limericks.
(b) Epic poetry.
(c) Sonnets.
(d) Lyrical poetry.

5. What wakes the narrator from his sleep?
(a) Gun shots.
(b) Music.
(c) Horses.
(d) Screams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator decide he must build a shelter?

2. What is the title of the essay Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote in 1925?

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

4. What is the name of the writer with whom Casares developed a close friendship?

5. What does the author say he is bathed in after two or three minutes out of the pool?

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