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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) Love.
(b) Water.
(c) Urine.
(d) Sweat.

2. The people on the mountainside are unmindful of what kind of creature?
(a) Rats.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Scorpions.

3. Which French novelist does Borges reference in the prologue?
(a) Andre Gide.
(b) Jean Paul Sartre.
(c) Marcel Proust.
(d) Albert Camus.

4. What can the narrator see from the marshlands?
(a) The mountainside.
(b) The top of a hill.
(c) The town hall.
(d) The church.

5. Why does the narrator say he decided to go to the island despite of its dangers?
(a) He wanted adventure.
(b) He thought there would be gold there.
(c) His life was unbearable.
(d) He knew the Italian as a liar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of product does La Martona produce?

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

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

4. Each god is three times larger than what?

5. What is the name of the writer with whom Casares developed a close friendship?

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