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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 9 through 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say he is bathed in after two or three minutes out of the pool?
(a) Water.
(b) Sweat.
(c) Love.
(d) Urine.

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

3. What two buildings are on top of the hill?
(a) A cinema and a cafe.
(b) A museum and a chapel.
(c) A town hall and a belltower.
(d) A factory and a mill.

4. What country does Bioy see as his second home?
(a) Germany
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Mexico.

5. The essayist say Casares's novels are rich in what?
(a) Reasoned imagination.
(b) Provoking images.
(c) Surreal imagination.
(d) Bizarre character sketches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following words does the author use to describe the building on the hill?

2. What is the name of the novel Bioy writes after the Invention of Morel?

3. What is the name of the magazine where Bioy started his career?

4. What writer does Borges claim has superior plots?

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

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