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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Abstracts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which play does the narrator say is terribly flawed?
(a) MacBeth.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) A Mid-Summer Night's Dream.

2. What is the only thing the narrator recognizes as reality?
(a) The love of God.
(b) The unconditional love of his father.
(c) The unconditional love of his mother.
(d) His own sensations.

3. What does the narrator fancy himself to be?
(a) An infant.
(b) An actor.
(c) A painter.
(d) A writer.

4. What does the narrator say is the worst thing that can happen to a writer who has completed a work?
(a) He realizes it hurts someone's feelings.
(b) He realizes it's no good.
(c) He realizes it is not true.
(d) He realizes he has plagarized.

5. Who, according to the narrator, cannot be a dreamer?
(a) The common man.
(b) The poor.
(c) The intellectual man.
(d) The wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is it that people really love of other people?

2. What does the narrator expect out of life?

3. What sight makes the narrator wish he had the "gift of ruthless self-expression?"

4. What does tedium seem to attack, according to the narrator?

5. How does the narrator multi-task?

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