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Whose work was Borges critiquing when he compared T. S. Eliot to Agatha Christie?
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25 times (11.6%) |
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The collaboration between Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most productive and lengthy in the history of literature. What was their first work together?
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98 times |
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31 times (13.9%) |
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Borges liked to state that contemporary literature would be inconceivable without which two U.S. writers
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143 times |
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62 times (25.9%) |
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"Not to admire __________ is one of the many forms of stupidity." Who was Borges referring to with this statement?
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134 times |
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83 times (35.9%) |
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What was the name of the well-known U.S. magazine that published Borges' only autobiographical essay?
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114 times |
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43 times (19.8%) |
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What city inspired Borges to pen the following epithet: "Ugly, vulgar, strident. Rectangular and filthy city..."?
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117 times |
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50 times (22.2%) |
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While Borges was serving as editor of a small magazine, Borges was the first to publish a Latin American writer who would become very famous. Who was it?
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126 times |
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27 times (11.9%) |
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99 times (43.8%) |
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100 times (44.2%) |
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Which animal licked Borges' face and was thus immortalized in one of his poems?
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119 times |
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66 times (30.0%) |
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53 times (24.1%) |
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101 times (45.9%) |
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Who wrote "The Garden of Forking Paths"?
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376 times |
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247 times (33.2%) |
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129 times (17.3%) |
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368 times (49.5%) |
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In José Saramago's The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (Paperback), a fictional book entitled "The God of the Labyrinth" by Herbert Quain is mentioned. This fictional book - and its author - were created in a short story by which author?
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377 times |
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238 times (27.7%) |
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139 times (16.2%) |
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483 times (56.2%) |
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Who wrote "Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations"?
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174 times |
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66 times (22.3%) |
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Which of the following authors never won the Nobel Prize for literature?
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226 times |
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98 times (32.0%) |
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Finish this important line said by the eponymous heroine in Jorge Luis Borges' short story "Ulrikke" --
'______ is a word mankind is forbidden to speak.'
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78 times |
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37 times (29.4%) |
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41 times (32.5%) |
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Fill in the missing name in the title of this short story by Jorge Luis Borges --
"The Gospel According to ______"
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87 times |
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24 times (18.6%) |
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very difficult |
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63 times (48.8%) |
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42 times (32.6%) |
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From which country is Ulrikke in Jorge Luis Borges' eponymous short story?
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71 times |
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17 times (14.2%) |
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very difficult |
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54 times (45.0%) |
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49 times (40.8%) |
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In Jorge Luis Borges' volume of stories, The Aleph, there is a short story about a certain Otto Dietrich zur Linde. This story bears the original title of a famous choral work by a German composer. Which of these is it?
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58 times |
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20 times (18.2%) |
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38 times (34.5%) |
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52 times (47.3%) |
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Which one of these titles is NOT by (the fictional) Herbert Quain, according to Jorge Luis Borges in his story, "A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain"?
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42 times |
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10 times (10.8%) |
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32 times (34.4%) |
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51 times (54.8%) |
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The renowned Spanish American writer Jorge Luis Borges suffered from which bodily affliction for most of his life?
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592 times |
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244 times (26.8%) |
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Shahrazad famously spins her stories in A Thousand and One Nights in an interlinked manner, in such a way that each word and each story added serves to delay the ending and to extend time (and thus, to prolong her life); potentially, infinitely so. Often -- particularly when she tells stories within a story -- she actually even makes her listener/reader go all the way back to the point where (s)he started.
Which of the following modern books likewise contain examples of such circular or "life-extending" storytelling (or even a direct or indirect reference to "1001 Nights")?
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91 times (22.8%) |
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In Jorge Luis Borges' short story "Funes, His Memory" (aka "Funes the Memorious") when the narrator meets the eponymous character for their long conversation, the latter had just read a chapter on people with remarkable memories in which ancient work of (natural) philosophy?
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24 times (28.6%) |
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Of whom is John Updike writing here?
"What are we to make of him? The economy of his prose, the tact of his imagery, the courage of his thought are there to be admired and emulated. In resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterton, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, he has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place."
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67 times |
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29 times (26.4%) |
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38 times (34.5%) |
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Fill in the missing name in this statement of Umberto Eco:
"Though so different in style, two writers have offered us an image for the next millenium: James Joyce and ____________. The first designed with words what the second designed with ideas: the original, the one and only World Wide Web. The Real Thing. The rest will remain simply virtual."
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63 times |
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24 times (25.8%) |
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Which one of these characters in Jorge Luis Borges' story, "Death and the Compass" does NOT get killed?
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21 times |
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13 times (20.3%) |
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8 times (12.5%) |
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Which famous novelist wrote the following to a friend of his, after the latter had suggested he read William Faulkner whom he considered a great talent: "PS. I have read your Faulkner. You are pulling my leg."
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49 times |
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16 times (21.3%) |
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33 times (44.0%) |
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26 times (34.7%) |
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Who wrote the extraordinary work of fiction entitled Nazi Literature in the Americas?
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50 times |
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29 times (38.2%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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21 times (27.6%) |
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26 times (34.2%) |
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Jorge Luis Borges was born in 1899. In which year did he marry María Kodama, the love of his life?
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33 times |
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16 times (30.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
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17 times (32.7%) |
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19 times (36.5%) |
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