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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Borges and Casares write about the virtues of what food product?
(a) Quark.
(b) Butter.
(c) Cheese.
(d) Yoghurt.

2. The people on the mountainside are unmindful of what kind of creature?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Rats.
(d) Scorpions.

3. What are the group's favorite two records?
(a) Tea for Two and Valencia.
(b) Frogs and Viva.
(c) A Road to Nowhere and Carnage.
(d) One More Cup of Coffee and Sevilla.

4. What does the Italian in Calcutta sell?
(a) Bags.
(b) Rugs.
(c) Wigs.
(d) Watches.

5. What is the name of the novel Bioy writes after the Invention of Morel?
(a) It Happens When We Are Alone.
(b) A Plan for Escape.
(c) A Little Matter.
(d) Funny Bones.

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

7. The narrator say he knows very little about what?
(a) Motors.
(b) Books.
(c) Pumps.
(d) Paintings.

8. What is the name of the Japanese cruiser that finds the dead crew of a ship?
(a) Cornea.
(b) Namura.
(c) Oshkido.
(d) Samurai.

9. Which of the following words does the author use to describe Bioy's personality?
(a) Happy-go-lucky.
(b) Loopy.
(c) Shy.
(d) Devious.

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

11. What is the name of the island?
(a) Henderson.
(b) Hollings.
(c) Villings.
(d) Paulo.

12. Which of the following words does the narrator use to describe the rooms of the museum?
(a) Colorless.
(b) Smelly.
(c) Odorless.
(d) Unpleasant.

13. Which of the following does a group of white men build on the island?
(a) A school.
(b) A post office.
(c) A museum.
(d) A factory.

14. What is the name of the writer with whom Casares developed a close friendship?
(a) Peter Robinson.
(b) Jorge Luis Borges.
(c) Garbriel Marcia Marquez.
(d) Henry James.

15. Who once called calls Bioy the secret master?
(a) Marquez.
(b) Borges.
(c) Greene.
(d) Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following words does the author use to describe the building on the hill?

2. What do Casares's friends call him?.

3. The narrator makes his bed out of what?

4. What room does the narrator remember with disgust?

5. Why does the narrator say he decided to go to the island despite of its dangers?

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