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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Artifices, The South.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is exchanged for bits of bone or decorated parchment in "The Babylon Lottery"?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Tickets.

2. What power does the Company have over lottery players?
(a) Supplies.
(b) Life and death.
(c) Governing.
(d) None.

3. In "The Circular Ruins," what happens to the body organ in the protagonist's dream?
(a) It grows and develops into a man.
(b) It rises into the air.
(c) It grows and develops into a woman.
(d) It disappears.

4. How does John Vincent Moon anger the Irishman?
(a) He refuses to fight.
(b) He turns the Irishman in to the authorities.
(c) He trades ammunition for food.
(d) He steals the Irishman's rations.

5. In "The Circular Ruins", how does the protagonist travel to the ruins?
(a) In a cart.
(b) On an eagle.
(c) On a horse.
(d) In a canoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dr. Yu Tsun shoot?

2. Which Menard manuscript describes the possibility of a new vocabulary?

3. What happens during Jaromir Hladik's execution?

4. Why does the narrator seek shelter at the Englishman's ranch?

5. In the story, "The End," why is the man in the back of the store lying down?

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