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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 62 through 78.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say it would have been practical to build out of stones?
(a) A toilet.
(b) A house.
(c) An outdoor oven.
(d) A barricade.

2. What does the narrator move out by the swimming pool?
(a) His couch.
(b) His bed.
(c) His bookshelf.
(d) His oven.

3. What happens to the first flowers the narrator picks?
(a) They fly away.
(b) They wilt.
(c) They change color.
(d) They vanish.

4. What does the woman watch every afternoon?
(a) The dancing girls.
(b) The television.
(c) The sunset.
(d) The ducks.

5. What kind of novel does Borges say is formless?
(a) A magical realist novel.
(b) A psychological novel.
(c) A crime novel.
(d) A social novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morel say is the name of the company with which he worked on his machine?

2. Into what does the narrator say the paper he is writing is changing ?

3. Why does the narrator decide he must build a shelter?

4. Whose photograph does Morel say he can show them?

5. Why does the Italian say the Rockefeller Institute never visit the island?

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