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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of product does La Martona produce?
(a) Clothing products.
(b) Leather products.
(c) Dairy products.
(d) Coffee products.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Into what language is the invention of Morel translated in 1953?
(a) English.
(b) Italian.
(c) French.
(d) German.

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

10. What is the name of the city Casares where was born?
(a) Sao Paulo.
(b) Buenos Aires.
(c) Seoul.
(d) Madrid.

11. What do Casares's friends call him?.
(a) Boyo.
(b) Adolfo.
(c) Bioy.
(d) Addy.

12. Whose motto does the narrator say he will adopt as his own?
(a) Peter's.
(b) Leonardo's.
(c) Jesus's.
(d) Michelangelo's.

13. What kind of novel does Borges say is formless?
(a) A social novel.
(b) A magical realist novel.
(c) A crime novel.
(d) A psychological novel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which French novelist does Borges reference in the prologue?

2. What does the chapel look like?

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

4. Who translated the 1964 American edition of the Invention of Morel?

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

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