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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Uqbar and Tlon?
(a) Inventions.
(b) Foods.
(c) Men.
(d) Books.

2. In "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim," who does the student speak with on top of the tower?
(a) An eagle.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A robber.
(d) Al-Mu'tasim.

3. What fear does the protagonist of "The Circular Ruins" have for his son?
(a) He will disappear.
(b) He will discover he is the product of a dream.
(c) The gods will steal him.
(d) He will die in a fire.

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

5. From what point of view is "The Circular Ruins" written?
(a) Third person.
(b) Second person.
(c) Second person omniscient.
(d) First person.

6. What happens to Herbert Ashe in "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"?
(a) He finds "The First Encyclopedia of Tlon."
(b) He is arrested.
(c) He dies.
(d) He breaks a mirror.

7. What does Dr. Stephen Albert believe is hidden in Ts'ui Pen's novel?
(a) A poem.
(b) A drawing.
(c) A map.
(d) A labyrinth.

8. How does Pierre Menard describe "Don Quixote"?
(a) An essential work of literature.
(b) Trite and meaningless.
(c) The work of an amateur.
(d) As an important work of literature.

9. In "The Approach of Al-Mu'tasim," which character writes a detective novel?
(a) A robber.
(b) A blind astrologer.
(c) A student.
(d) A lawyer.

10. Which author corresponds with the narrator in "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote"?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) Miguel de Cervantes.
(d) Pierre Menard.

11. From what point of view is "The Garden of Forking Paths" written?
(a) Second person omniscient.
(b) Third person.
(c) Second person.
(d) First person.

12. What do the stories in April March share?
(a) The last chapter.
(b) The protagonist.
(c) The first chapter.
(d) The antagonist.

13. What fascinates the narrator the most about the planet of Tlon?
(a) The passage of time.
(b) The languages of the planet.
(c) The mirrors.
(d) The laws of nature.

14. In "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim," where does the student go after he leaves Indapur?
(a) Palanpur.
(b) Calcutta.
(c) Bombay.
(d) Persia.

15. In "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim," why does the student run to the top of a tower?
(a) He is tired of all the fighting.
(b) He longs to end his suffering.
(c) He believes he has killed someone.
(d) He is angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator believe will eventually happen to the planet on which he lives?

2. What is exchanged for bits of bone or decorated parchment in "The Babylon Lottery"?

3. Which great literary work does Pierre Menard rewrite?

4. Which books often drive people to insanity?

5. What are the Vindications?

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