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