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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 437 - 455.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say he has inside him despite the appearance of being outwardly calm?
(a) A crushed spirit.
(b) Heaven and hell.
(c) Anger in his crushed soul.
(d) Joy in his soul.

2. According to the narrator, what is the result of the disappearance of Christianity?
(a) Hedonism.
(b) Satanism.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Judaism.

3. What does the narrator believe differentiates him from other people?
(a) His active social life.
(b) His active religious life.
(c) His active studies of human spirit.
(d) His active thinking life.

4. What complaint does the narrator make about the Tagus River in Section 79?
(a) It's natural beauty has been destroyed.
(b) It is too narrow.
(c) People have turned it into recreation.
(d) It has a bad smell.

5. What job position -- if it existed -- does the narrator say he would be perfect to fill?
(a) Examiner of grammar.
(b) Royal writer of words.
(c) Arbiter of elegance.
(d) Improver for art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say will contain little intelligence and much stupidity?

2. What does the person who enjoys being sick like about having fever?

3. What simple change does the narrator says has a liberating affect on one's spirit?

4. What does the narrator say is the worst thing that can happen to a writer who has completed a work?

5. How does the narrator refer to tedium?

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