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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 261 - 301.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's only sense of peace comes from reading?
(a) Psalms and Proverbs specifically.
(b) The works of the Classical writers.
(c) The New Testament.
(d) The Old Testament.

2. What makes man long for a father figure to guide him, according to the narrator?
(a) Human nature.
(b) Weakness.
(c) Necessity.
(d) Lack of religious upbringing.

3. What, according to the narrator, is better than any destination one could travel to see?
(a) The trip you take in your imagination.
(b) The trip you take to the altar to commit your life to the Lord.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Nothing.

4. Why does the narrator say poetry should be written by children?
(a) Because they understand meter.
(b) Because they have an honesty that cannot be duplicated.
(c) Because it is elementary.
(d) Because they have a natural rhythm.

5. In what condition does the narrator seem to believe that all other people live in daily?
(a) Unconscious sleep.
(b) Unconscious stupor.
(c) Unconscious bravery.
(d) Unconscious intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What advice does the narrator have for business owners?

3. Who admits to not reading the narrator's writings because he cannot understand them?

4. What does the narrator say is an offensive form of human stupidity?

5. Who concerns themselves with the mystical aspect of Rabbinic Judaism?

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