The Library of Babel Quizzes

The Library of Babel Quiz 1

1 What does the Library represent?
Human nature

The universe

Knowledge

The education system in Argentina
2 What shape are the rooms in the Library?
Circles

Hexagons

Pentagons

Triangles
3 How many bookshelves are in each room in the Library?
20

410

40

5
4 How many books are on each shelf in the Library?
410

20

32

40
5 How many pages are in each book in the Library?
40

42

410

Infinite
6 How many rooms are in the Library?
32

Infinite

410

40
7 What is the first axiom about the Library?
The Book-Man is God

There are 25 orthographic symbols

Librarians must not attempt to create randomness

The Library has existed ab aeternitate
8 What is the second axiom about the Library?
The Book-Man is God

The Library has existed ab aeternitate

Librarians must not attempt to create randomness

There are 25 orthographic symbols
9 Which of these symbols would not be found in a book in The Library?
Upper-case A

Comma

Period

Lower-case A
10 What letters were repeated in the book the narrator's father found?
Y H V

M C V

A B C

X Y Z
11 What quote was on the penultimate page of another book in the Library?
Combed Thunder

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

O Time thy pyramids

The Library is total
12 What did the narrator pursue when he was younger?
To find a way out of the Library

To become Book-Man

The catalog of catalogs

True love
13 What language is not mentioned with regard to the book with two identical pages?
a Samoyed-Lithuanian dialect of Guarani

Yiddish

Portuguese

English
14 What books are said to contain "prophecies that would vindicate for all time the actions of every person in the universe"
The Apologies

The Babelog

The Vindications

The catalog of catalogs
15 What does the narrator think about The Vindications?
They are real

They existed once, but a misguided sect destroyed them

It's likely that you will find your own by the time you grow old

They don't exist
16 Who were the inquisitors?
Librarians searching for the narrator

Librarians searching for the books of the Crimson Hexagon and throwing out all others

Librarians searching for an extraordinary language

Librarians searching for the Book-Man
17 Who were the Purifiers?
Librarians searching for the books of the Crimson Hexagon and throwing out all others

Librarians searching for the covers for the ventilation shafts

Librarians searching for the Book-Man

Librarians searching for an extraordinary language
18 Who does the narrator call infidels?
Those who believe the Library is nonsense

Those who throw out books they don't think are worthy

Those who seek to find the end of the library

Those who speak foreign languages
19 Who is the Book-Man?
A librarian who sells magical and illustrated books

A librarian who is made out of books

A librarian who has read the compendium of all other books

The narrator's father
20 What does the narrator ask directly to the reader?
What language do you speak?

Are you certain you understand my language?

Have you seen the Book-Man?

Is The Library periodical?
21 What word does the narrator focus on in the last paragraph of the short story?
Infinite

Bible

Book

Indefinite
22 What conclusion does the narrator come to in the final paragraph?
The Library is periodic

The Library is limited

The Book-Man will someday organize the Library

The number of possible books in the library is unlimited
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?
Letizia Alvarez de Toledo

Robert Burton

Jorge Luis Borges

Cavalieri
25 What is the epigraph of The Library of Babel?
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

Mar del Plata, 1941

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by Jorge Luis Borges

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