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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman's bosom make her look like?
(a) A gypsy girl.
(b) A fortune teller.
(c) A peasant girl.
(d) A witch.

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

3. What wakes the narrator from his sleep?
(a) Gun shots.
(b) Screams.
(c) Music.
(d) Horses.

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

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

6. What is the name of the story the author says anticipates the Invention of Morel?
(a) The Girl in the Photograph.
(b) The Man Who Said Ho.
(c) Love Me Not.
(d) The Postcard Lovers.

7. What room does the narrator remember with disgust?
(a) The triangle room.
(b) The box room.
(c) The circular room.
(d) The square room.

8. Which of the following words does the author use to describe the building on the hill?
(a) Square.
(b) Angular.
(c) Tubular.
(d) Rotund.

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

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

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

12. What is the name of Eliseo Subiela's metaphysical film?
(a) The Grand Illusion.
(b) Man Facing Southeast.
(c) Gross Misconduct.
(d) Doing For the Sake of It.

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

14. 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.

15. Which one of Bioy's stories does the writer mention in the introduction?
(a) The Invention that Changed the World.
(b) Family Ties and Other Assortments.
(c) The Misadventurers of the Girl Who Hated Icecream.
(d) The Adventure of a Photographer in La Plata.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say it would have been practical to build out of stones?

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

3. What torments the author in the southern part of the island?

4. What does the narrator say the people look like from where he is standing?

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

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