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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 Italian rug merchant?
(a) Roberto Baggio.
(b) Umberto Eco.
(c) Paulo Maldini.
(d) Dalmacio Ombrellieri.

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

3. 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) Family Ties and Other Assortments.
(d) The Misadventurers of the Girl Who Hated Icecream.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Italian in Calcutta sell?

2. Into what does the narrator say the paper he is writing is changing ?

3. What is the novel Casares wrote in 1934?

4. What is the only tree that grows in coral sands?

5. The essayist say Casares's novels are rich in what?

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