The Garden of Forking Paths Quizzes

    Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Garden of Forking Paths? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
    Q. A great deal of the story is devoted to finding a metaphor for


    Time
    Hatred
    Insanity
    Love
    Q. What is intertextuality?


    Alien invasion
    Excerpts from and references to texts within a story
    Footnotes
    Something really, really weird
    Q. According to Ts'ui Pen's books,


    Certain outcomes will occur no matter the circumstances that lead to them.
    Certain outcomes never exist.
    Q. Albert studies whose culture?


    Chinese
    Indian
    African
    Venezuelan
    Q. Yu Tsun's narrative has frequent use of which word?


    Implacable
    Indecisive
    Irrelevant
    Iridiscent