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