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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 9 through 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the chapel look like?
(a) A hat box.
(b) A turtle.
(c) A long box.
(d) A pancake.

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

4. In which room does the narrator say he made discoveries on two separate occasions?
(a) The loft.
(b) The basement.
(c) The library.
(d) The dining room.

5. What large collection does the museum have in one room?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Stamps.
(c) Pewter.
(d) Books.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a summer resort?

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

3. What is the name of the city Casares where was born?

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

5. The people on the mountainside are unmindful of what kind of creature?

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