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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the beautiful woman wear over her dark curls?
(a) A cowboy hat.
(b) A bright scarf.
(c) A map.
(d) A plastic bag.

2. Which Edgar Allan Poe story does the writer reference in the introduction?
(a) The Pit and the Pendulum.
(b) The Raven.
(c) The House of Usher.
(d) Black Cat.

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

4. Who translated the 1964 American edition of the Invention of Morel?
(a) Jack Johnson.
(b) Ruth L.C. Sims.
(c) Davis P. D. Quip.
(d) Doreen Hopper.

5. What large collection does the museum have in one room?
(a) Pewter.
(b) Books.
(c) Stamps.
(d) Paintings.

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

7. Why is it impossible to cut the trees on top of the hill?
(a) The wood is too hard.
(b) They are guarded.
(c) They are diseased.
(d) They are too young.

8. The narrator makes his bed out of what?
(a) Moss and leaves.
(b) Feathers and branches.
(c) Branches and leaves.
(d) Tree trunks and seaweed.

9. Each god is three times larger than what?
(a) A basketball player.
(b) A pillar.
(c) A man.
(d) A steeple.

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

11. Into what does the narrator say the paper he is writing is changing ?
(a) A script.
(b) A shopping list.
(c) A will.
(d) A diary.

12. What does the author say came ahead of time?
(a) The Beatles.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) The Velvet Underground.

13. What does Borges say Joyce's Ulysses is rather than a masterpiece?
(a) A failure.
(b) A beginning.
(c) A promise.
(d) An end.

14. Which of the following creatures can one find in the swimming pool?
(a) Hippos.
(b) Scorpions.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Toads.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does a group of white men build on the island?

2. What is the name of the city Casares where was born?

3. Who directs Last Year at Marienbad?

4. The narrator say he knows very little about what?

5. What genre did Robert Stevenson think the British reading public scorned in 1880?

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