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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. Which of the following best describes "Ibn-Hakam-Al Bokhari, Murdered in his Labyrinth"?
(a) It is realistic.
(b) It is a fantasy story that requires a suspension of disbelief.
(c) It is intendend as a precise moral lesson, with unambiguous instruction.
(d) It is a comedy meant to amuse children.

2. In "The South," what is Dahlmann challenged to do outside a bar?
(a) Recite poetry.
(b) Wrestle.
(c) Win at horseshoes.
(d) Have a knife fight.

3. In "The Lottery in Babylon," who sometimes arbitrates the result of a lottery drawing?
(a) A panel of nine judges.
(b) The king.
(c) A soothsayer who lives atop a mountain.
(d) The populace does a general vote.

4. In "Mahomed's Double," what happens when the Muslims see a vision of Mohamed?
(a) They fall into trances.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They instantly know the path to salvation.
(d) Their eyes melt.

5. In "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," who first finds an article about Uqbar?
(a) Herbert Ashe.
(b) Bioy Casares.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Tlon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Pierre Menard, Author of Quixote," Menard wishes to do what?

2. In "Averroes' Search," what concept or concepts can Averroes not comprehend?

3. In "The Writing of God," what animal is jailed next to Tzinacan?

4. In "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv," Hakim's religious sect hates what things?

5. In "The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan," who shoots Bill?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Ibn-Hakam-Al Bokhari, Murdered in his Labyrinth," according to Unwin, why did Sa'id truly steal the treasure, and what are the implications of this motivation?

2. In "The South," how does Dahlmann feel about his imminent death in a knife fight?

3. Describe the theme in "The Mirror of Ink."

4. In "Death and the Compass," how does Scharlach defeat Lonnrot?

5. In "Emma Zunz," how does Emma exact revenge on Lowenthal for her father's death?

6. In "The Garden of Forking Paths," why does Dr. Yu work for the Germans?

7. In "Man on the Pink Corner," why does Rosendo disappear and then come back when challenged by the Yardmaster?

8. In "The Circular Ruins," a man creates another man in a dream and ultimately discovers that he is a dream himself. Is Borges making a possible connection to the artistic process?

9. In "The Secret Miracle," does Hladik really gain anything in the year of frozen time that God grants him?

10. "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" is a review of a book that does not exist. How is this significant?

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