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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator move out by the swimming pool?
(a) His couch.
(b) His oven.
(c) His bed.
(d) His bookshelf.

4. What is the name of the Italian rug merchant?
(a) Roberto Baggio.
(b) Dalmacio Ombrellieri.
(c) Paulo Maldini.
(d) Umberto Eco.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the name of the story where Bioy claims he finally has found his style?
(a) Thinking Alone.
(b) Asleep in the Sun.
(c) The Idol.
(d) The Celestial Plot.

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

12. Who directs Last Year at Marienbad?
(a) Resnais.
(b) Goddard.
(c) Herzog.
(d) Rosini.

13. What is the only tree that grows in coral sands?
(a) The palm tree.
(b) The oak tree.
(c) The coconut tree.
(d) The silver birch.

14. Casares is from what country?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Chile.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Spain.

15. What is the name of the magazine where Bioy started his career?
(a) Gordo.
(b) Latin Maker.
(c) Sur.
(d) Tomkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator looking for when he makes his first discovery?

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

3. What is the name of the Japanese cruiser that finds the dead crew of a ship?

4. What room measures forty feet by fifty feet?

5. What can the narrator see from the marshlands?

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