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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 79 through 103.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator find on the floor of the machine room?
(a) A latch.
(b) A gun.
(c) A knife,
(d) A pen.

2. Why does the narrator say he decided to go to the island despite of its dangers?
(a) His life was unbearable.
(b) He wanted adventure.
(c) He thought there would be gold there.
(d) He knew the Italian as a liar.

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

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

5. Why does the Italian say the Rockefeller Institute never visit the island?
(a) It is sacred ground.
(b) There is a war raging in its center.
(c) The inhabitants are cannibals.
(d) It is the focal point of a mysterious disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Borges say Joyce's Ulysses is rather than a masterpiece?

2. Which Edgar Allan Poe story does the writer reference in the introduction?

3. What is unusual about the celestial condition?

4. What kind of mind does the man think could take Morel's invention to its next level?

5. Why can't the narrator initially escape from the museum?

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