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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator refer to his nightmare he'd had in New York in Chapter 5?
(a) "Mountain of the Night Terror."
(b) "Mountain of the Mien Mo."
(c) "Mountain of Vultures."
(d) "Mountain of the Mo Mien."

2. The narrator writes that within what time period, he lost complete control of the peace mechanisms of his mind?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Four weeks.
(c) Six months.
(d) Two months.

3. What book does Jack refer to reading in the cabin at 3 a.m. in Chapter 5?
(a) Ulysses.
(b) Finnegan's Wake.
(c) Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde.
(d) Frankenstein.

4. Who does the narrator say that Herman Hesse thought he was in Chapter 7?
(a) God.
(b) Rimbaud.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Plato.

5. Which author does the narrator say wrote the inanities of the sea because he wasn't going to do it when he's dead?
(a) Pollack.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Wordsworth.
(d) Poe.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9 the narrator writes that he feels he's just a sick what?

2. The narrator writes in Chapter 3, "I'm afraid to go down there--I am affrayed in the old _____ sense of being frayed by a whip."

3. On which side is the bluff to Jack as he travels the road at night in Chapter 3?

4. What is the name of the narrator's cat?

5. What poet does the narrator refer to in Chapter 5 in relation to himself?

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