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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 44 through 62.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concept does the narrator say he finds delightful?
(a) The fact Faustine is in love with him.
(b) The fact he could have found his soulmate.
(c) The fact he could be a genius.
(d) The fact he may be dead.

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

3. How does the narrator recognize the poisonous plants?
(a) From the number of corpses that surround the bush.
(b) Froma book he finds in the museum.
(c) Through pain he has suffered form eating them.
(d) From the color of the berries.

4. Why is the narrator certain that people have come back to the island?
(a) There is a terrible storm.
(b) Disease is everywhere.
(c) There is nothing to drink or eat.
(d) Taxes are high.

5. What is the name of the novel Bioy writes after the Invention of Morel?
(a) A Plan for Escape.
(b) A Little Matter.
(c) It Happens When We Are Alone.
(d) Funny Bones.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Casares's friends call him?.

2. Where does the narrator find fresh flowers?

3. The narrator makes his bed out of what?

4. What room measures forty feet by fifty feet?

5. What does the man hear humming when he goes back upstairs?

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