A) That they are written by the same author B) That they represent a forgotten language C) That they are plagiarized copies D) That they were written by an anonymous god
A) Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote B) The Garden of Forking Paths C) The Aleph D) The Library of Babel
A) Religious texts and poetry collections B) Encyclopedias and atlases C) Dictionaries and travel journals D) Science fiction novels and historical biographies
A) Ezra Buckley B) Thomas de Quincey C) Pierre Menard D) Bioy Casares
A) Mathematics, logic, and geometry B) Shadows, silence, and death C) Truth, beauty, and light D) Reflection, replication, and reproduction
A) A flawless and complete original B) A literal if inadequate reproduction C) A secret document of the government D) A forbidden and destroyed collection
A) The original inhabitants of the imagined world B) Duplicates of objects called into existence by ignorance or hope C) Sacred symbols of a minor god D) Mathematical errors in the duodecimal system
A) They are invisible to the human eye B) They possess a purity of form the originals lack C) They are inferior and corrupted D) They are identical to the original
A) To destroy the concept of the cosmos B) To prove mortal men could conceive a world C) To translate the language of the demons D) To establish a universal arithmetic system
A) They have no value until they are named or counted B) They are eternal and unchanging truths C) They are based on infinite patterns of logic D) They are strictly governed by the duodecimal system
A) It is designed to be deciphered by humans B) It is written in an alphabetical format C) It is a perfectly logical construct D) Not all symbols have meaning
A) Meeting with Bioy Casares B) Working on a tentative translation of an English-language work C) Writing an encyclopedia for Tlön D) Reflecting on the nature of mirrors
A) By denying the existence of libraries B) By attributing fictional aspects to real historical figures C) By erasing all names of actual people D) By focusing only on mathematical theories
A) A stone mirror B) A mathematical constant C) An object invoked and dissolved according to poetic necessity D) A permanent statue
A) The duodecimal system B) The decimal system C) The binary system D) The Roman numeral system
A) Immanuel Kant B) George Berkeley C) Emir Rodríguez Monegal D) Alastair Reid
A) Sapir–Whorf hypothesis B) The Berkeleyan God theory C) The theory of objective reality D) The theory of solipsism
A) Alastair Reid B) Immanuel Kant C) Borges D) Emir Rodríguez Monegal
A) Aneurysm rupture B) Old age C) A mysterious disappearance D) Heart attack
A) Herbert Ashe B) Berkeley Idealism C) Orbis Tertius D) Tlön Uqbar
A) Materialism B) Rationalism C) Subjective idealism D) Empiricism
A) Adjectives B) Nouns C) Adverbs D) Verbs
A) Adverbial affix B) Impersonal verb C) Monosyllabic noun D) Monosyllabic adjective
A) The use of nouns in language B) Materialism C) The importance of individual authorship D) Pantheistic conjecture
A) Borges B) The dissident scholar C) Andrew Hurley D) Herbert Ashe
A) Adolfo Bioy Casares B) Gabriel García Márquez C) Jorge Luis Borges D) James E. Irby
A) Labyrinths B) New World Writing C) Sur D) The New Yorker
A) Jorge Luis Borges B) Adolfo Bioy Casares C) New Directions D) James E. Irby
A) 2,000 words B) 10,000 words C) 5,600 words D) 500 words
A) 1961 B) 1940 C) 1962 D) 1947
A) A literary club B) A secret organization C) A religious order D) A government agency
A) 1935 B) 1961 C) 1940 D) 1947
A) In Asia Minor B) In Iraq C) Near Buenos Aires D) In Tlön
A) New World Writing B) Orbis Tertius C) Labyrinths D) Sur
A) Scientific report B) Speculative fiction C) Poetry D) Historical biography
A) Thomas Browne B) Borges C) Ezra Buckley D) Herbert Ashe
A) Jesus Christ B) George Berkeley C) Thomas Browne D) The King of England
A) Forty B) Twelve C) One thousand D) Three hundred
A) A forbidden book B) A letter in a strange language C) A vibrating compass D) A heavy metal cone
A) Lucerne, Switzerland B) Buenos Aires, Argentina C) London, England D) Memphis, Tennessee
A) A merchant B) A drunk man C) A scientist D) A librarian
A) 1947 B) 1942 C) 1941 D) 1944
A) The Borges Archive B) La Biblioteca di Uqbar C) Uqbar Studies Online D) The Encyclopedia of Tlön
A) Jorge Luis Borges B) The Mandaean priests C) The Encyclopedia Britannica editor D) Silas Haslam
A) A rare historical artifact B) A work of pure fiction C) A scholarly masterpiece D) A plagiarism
A) The fifth edition B) The tenth edition C) The eleventh edition D) The first edition
A) T-U B) UQR-URB C) TLÖ-UR D) TOT-UPS
A) 900 B) 918 C) 917 D) 950
A) The 9th edition B) The 12th edition C) The 11th edition D) The 10th edition
A) Ur B) Upsala C) Ural D) Uqbar
A) The desert B) The end C) The origin D) The city
A) The Tlönians B) The Mandaeans C) The Romans D) The Uqbarites
A) Orbis Tertius B) Ursprache C) Tlön D) Uqbar
A) The Atlas Mountains B) Anatolia C) Mlejnas D) Samarra
A) Ibn Khaldun B) Meshwi al-Ukbari C) Al-‘Ukbarî D) Anan ben David
A) Wooden statues B) Metal weapons C) Glass windows D) Stone mirrors
A) Baghdad B) Samarra C) Erzerum D) ‘Ukbarâ
A) The Turkish word for river B) A corruption of a Latin geographic term C) An ancient Arabic term for mountain D) A dialect of the Atlas Mountains
A) As early Jewish/Karaite heresiarchs B) As the authors of the fictional encyclopedia C) As leaders of an orthodox Muslim sect D) As mythical characters in an epic poem
A) English physician B) German theologian C) Argentinian cartographer D) American diplomat
A) Carlos Mastronardi B) Alfonso Reyes C) Herbert Ashe D) Xul Solar
A) Silas Haslam B) Gunnar Erfjord C) Ezra Buckley D) Herbert Ashe
A) Northern hemisphere B) Polar region C) Southern hemisphere D) Equatorial region
A) Chymische Hochzeit B) Philosophie des Als Ob C) Gegenstandstheorie D) Parerga und Paralipomena
A) Charles Howard Hinton B) Bertrand Russell C) Thomas De Quincey D) Thomas Browne
A) Gaumata B) Al-Muqanna C) Christian Rosencreutz D) Cyrus the Great
A) Enrique Amorim B) Ezequiel Martínez Estrada C) Néstor Ibarra D) Carlos Mastronardi
A) David Hume B) Leibniz C) Hegel D) Arthur Schopenhauer
A) Librarian B) Professor C) Professional journalist D) Diplomat
A) He won a literary prize B) His father died C) He left for exile D) He suffered a severe head wound
A) Pierre Menard B) Lazarus Morell C) Don Juan Manuel D) Emanuel Swedenborg
A) Lazarus Morell B) Victoria Ocampo C) Juan Perón D) Pierre Menard
A) 2 months B) 5 months C) 12 months D) 10 months
A) Biographical B) Essayistic C) Poetic D) Journalistic
A) The Book of Fantasy B) Labyrinths C) El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan D) Borges, a Reader
A) Retro Hugo Award B) Nobel Prize in Literature C) Pulitzer Prize D) National Prize for Music Composition
A) Alastair Reid B) Grant Morrison C) Karl Ove Knausgård D) James E. Irby
A) The Library of Babel B) Ummo C) Orqwith D) Codex Seraphinianus
A) Ummo B) The Rings of Saturn C) Codex Seraphinianus D) Prisoners of Uqbaristan
A) Axaxaxas mlö B) Orqwith C) Uqbar D) Tlön
A) Chris Nakashima-Brown B) Luigi Serafini C) W. G. Sebald D) Diego Vega
A) Grant Morrison B) Jacques Vallée C) Karl Ove Knausgård D) W. G. Sebald
A) Uqbar B) Tlon C) Désaccord Majeur D) Internal Fusion |