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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The town of Bearn is in what country?
(a) Ireland.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Belguim.

3. Which of the following poets wrote lyrical poems?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Stevenson.
(c) Poe.
(d) Verlaine.

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

5. The author awakens to the sound of what?
(a) A gospel choir.
(b) Birds singing.
(c) The radio.
(d) A phonograph record.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following words does the author use to describe Bioy's personality?

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

3. Which Edgar Allan Poe story does the writer reference in the introduction?

4. Casares is from what country?

5. What building is on the lowlands of the island?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Borges say about Spanish literature?

2. What does the narrator feel about the woman he sees watching the sunset?

3. Why does the narrator think he could be hallucinating the people in the museum?

4. How does the rug seller help the narrator escape onto the island?

5. How does the island disease affect people?

6. Why does the narrator think the roots he has been eating have caused him to hallucinate?

7. What does the narrator want to expose in his books?

8. What problem does the narrator have with flowers?

9. What does the narrator think of Morel's speech?

10. How does the narrator describe the woman he sees watching the sunset?

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