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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. In "August 25, 1983," what hotel room does Borges go to?
(a) 19.
(b) 63.
(c) 49.
(d) The room is numberless.

2. In "Unworthy," what does the rest of the gang call Fischbein?
(a) Fish.
(b) Iron Fist.
(c) The Tiger.
(d) Little Russian.

3. In "Blue Tigers," what are the Blue Tigers?
(a) Mysterious stones.
(b) Members of a religious sect.
(c) Arguments that employ specious reasoning.
(d) Mythological tigers made of ice.

4. In "Juan Murana," what is the name the aunt uses for the knife that kills the landlord?
(a) Juan.
(b) El Tiburon.
(c) The Sting.
(d) Gold Death.

5. In "Brodie's Report," who are the Yahoos?
(a) A type of wild man living in the forset among the ape men.
(b) People who are overly enthusiastic.
(c) Borges's pet name for his extended family.
(d) A society of scholars who study Swift..

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Maker," the protagonist is what Greek writer?

2. In "The Yellow Rose," what does Marino FINALLY think about his poetry?

3. What is the event in "The Elderly Lady"?

4. In "The Sect of Thirty," the sect worships which Biblical figure?

5. In "A Dialog Between Dead Men," though dead, Quiroga is still angry at whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Name some of the customs and beliefs of the strange group in "The Sect of Thirty."

2. In "A Weary Man's Utopia," is the society described by the old man really a "utopia"?

3. In "The Duel," what is the nature of the duel between Clara and Marta?

4. In "Undr," is there any suggestion that "Undr" or "wonder" really isn't the only sacred word of the Urns?

5. What does "The Disk" say about greed?

6. In "The Yellow Rose," what is Marino's epiphany?

7. What does "Shakespeare's Memory" say about creating art?

8. In "The Rose of Paracelsus," why doesn't Paracelsus turn the ashes of the rose into a rose for the young man?

9. What is the message about scientific precision in "Museum- On Exactitude in Science"?

10. In "The Book of Sand," what are the stages of the narrator's view toward the book?

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