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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 342 - 381.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does sunrise in the city make the narrator do?
(a) Think.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Live.
(d) Awaken.

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

3. What kind of people make up the narrator's life?
(a) Eccentric.
(b) Common.
(c) Rich.
(d) Poor.

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

5. What does the narrator say is a disease born from civilization?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Illiteracy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the narrator's boss?

3. Who is the author of The Book of Disquiet?

4. What does the narrator define as a phenomenon where a person is unaware of a flash of intelligence?

5. What does the narrator call sensations that keep a person from thinking?

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