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