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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 382 - 436.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the writing style in which the writing seems to mimic the author's random thoughts?
(a) Omniscient.
(b) Stream of consciousness.
(c) Fiction.
(d) FIrst person.

2. What does the narrator credit for the idea of romantic love?
(a) Satan.
(b) Individual faith.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Christianity.

3. What, in addition to dreams, does the narrator say can substitute life?
(a) Entertaining.
(b) Music.
(c) Movies.
(d) Art.

4. What lie does the narrator tell a clerk about his feelings about being alone?
(a) He is not allowed to be left alone.
(b) He doesn't like to be alone.
(c) He loves to be alone.
(d) He is never alone.

5. What source does the author use frequently for the imagery of his descriptions and definitions?
(a) Literary terms.
(b) Nature.
(c) Religious terminology.
(d) The dictionary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say poetry should be written by children?

2. Who, along with a particular poet, has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?

3. What smell brings back memories of the narrator's childhood?

4. If reading is a way to dream, who actually guides that dream?

5. What, according to the narrator, is better than any destination one could travel to see?

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