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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters V, VI and VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the writer say about the offense he took for various things in his life?
(a) It is because of his difficult life.
(b) It is deliberate.
(c) He thinks he is cursed.
(d) It is inconsequential.

2. The writer describes a man who knew every thing about Chateau-Lafite. How does the writer say this man dies?
(a) A lonely man.
(b) With regrets.
(c) With a triumphant conscience.
(d) Peacefully.

3. What does the writer state is the only purpose of intelligent people?
(a) To chatter.
(b) To think.
(c) To fine primary causes.
(d) To define laws.

4. In Part 1, Chapter 2, the writer describes the attitudes men have toward their own illness. What does the writer say about his own and others' attitudes toward their illnesses?
(a) They are ashamed of their illnesses.
(b) They flaunt their illnesses.
(c) They keep their illness a secret.
(d) They take pride in them.

5. The writer describes himself in many ways. By the end of Part 1, Chapter 2, he compares himself to a hunchback, and gives himself what character trait?
(a) Quick to take offense.
(b) Honorable.
(c) Unpleasent looking.
(d) Disabled.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the writer describe St. Petersburg?

2. What does the writer say being too conscious is?

3. What does the writer say a man can do with no primary cause for action?

4. When the writer states that there is something wrong with his liver, why does he refuse to go to a doctor?

5. The writer goes on to explain what men do because they cannot change. What does the writer think men do in this instance?

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