1 What does the Library represent? Human nature The universe The education system in Argentina Knowledge 2 What shape are the rooms in the Library? Triangles Pentagons Hexagons Circles 3 How many bookshelves are in each room in the Library? 5 410 20 40 4 How many books are on each shelf in the Library? 410 32 40 20 5 How many pages are in each book in the Library? 410 40 Infinite 42 6 How many rooms are in the Library? 410 32 Infinite 40 7 What is the first axiom about the Library? The Book-Man is God There are 25 orthographic symbols The Library has existed ab aeternitate Librarians must not attempt to create randomness 8 What is the second axiom about the Library? Librarians must not attempt to create randomness There are 25 orthographic symbols The Book-Man is God The Library has existed ab aeternitate 9 Which of these symbols would not be found in a book in The Library? Upper-case A Lower-case A Comma Period 10 What letters were repeated in the book the narrator's father found? Y H V A B C M C V X Y Z 11 What quote was on the penultimate page of another book in the Library? O Time thy pyramids Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius The Library is total Combed Thunder 12 What did the narrator pursue when he was younger? To become Book-Man True love The catalog of catalogs To find a way out of the Library 13 What language is not mentioned with regard to the book with two identical pages? English a Samoyed-Lithuanian dialect of Guarani Portuguese Yiddish 14 What books are said to contain "prophecies that would vindicate for all time the actions of every person in the universe" The catalog of catalogs The Apologies The Babelog The Vindications 15 What does the narrator think about The Vindications? It's likely that you will find your own by the time you grow old They don't exist They existed once, but a misguided sect destroyed them They are real 16 Who were the inquisitors? Librarians searching for the narrator Librarians searching for the Book-Man Librarians searching for an extraordinary language Librarians searching for the books of the Crimson Hexagon and throwing out all others 17 Who were the Purifiers? Librarians searching for the books of the Crimson Hexagon and throwing out all others Librarians searching for the Book-Man Librarians searching for an extraordinary language Librarians searching for the covers for the ventilation shafts 18 Who does the narrator call infidels? Those who seek to find the end of the library Those who speak foreign languages Those who believe the Library is nonsense Those who throw out books they don't think are worthy 19 Who is the Book-Man? A librarian who has read the compendium of all other books A librarian who is made out of books A librarian who sells magical and illustrated books The narrator's father 20 What does the narrator ask directly to the reader? Have you seen the Book-Man? Are you certain you understand my language? What language do you speak? Is The Library periodical? 21 What word does the narrator focus on in the last paragraph of the short story? Indefinite Bible Infinite Book 22 What conclusion does the narrator come to in the final paragraph? The Book-Man will someday organize the Library The Library is periodic The number of possible books in the library is unlimited The Library is limited 23 Which of the following is NOT a theme in The Library of Babel? Infinity Metaphysics Marriage Religion 24 Who stated that every solid body is the superposition of an infinite number of planes? Jorge Luis Borges Letizia Alvarez de Toledo Cavalieri Robert Burton 25 What is the epigraph of The Library of Babel? Anatomy of Melancholy The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters... Mar del Plata, 1941
