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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 is the name of the Mexican poet referenced in the introduction?
(a) Manuel Carpio.
(b) Gabriella Brimmer.
(c) Octavio Paz.
(d) Pita Amor.

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

3. What kind of novel does Borges say is formless?
(a) A social novel.
(b) A crime novel.
(c) A psychological novel.
(d) A magical realist novel.

4. What torments the author in the southern part of the island?
(a) Women.
(b) Children.
(c) Mosquitoes.
(d) Asps.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Casares is from what country?

2. In which room does the narrator say he made discoveries on two separate occasions?

3. What does the narrator move out by the swimming pool?

4. What are the Spanish poets and intellectuals fleeing in the 30s?

5. What room measures forty feet by fifty feet?

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