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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 62 through 78.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is the narrator certain that people have come back to the island?
(a) Taxes are high.
(b) Disease is everywhere.
(c) There is nothing to drink or eat.
(d) There is a terrible storm.

3. Who is ordering around the servants?
(a) The rug seller.
(b) Jane.
(c) Faustine.
(d) Morel.

4. What does Morel say will happen after three days?
(a) The soldiers will come.
(b) Faustine will have forgotten him.
(c) He will hold a meeting.
(d) Everything will be over.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the story where Bioy claims he finally has found his style?

2. What does the narrator say is elegantly carpeted?

3. Who does Morel say he doesn't want to discover his plans?

4. What is the name of the novel Bioy writes after the Invention of Morel?

5. What does the narrator say are on the western side of the ravine?

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