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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say will contain little intelligence and much stupidity?
(a) Any idea he offers.
(b) Any idea born in his workplace.
(c) Any idea based on religion rather than intellect.
(d) Any idea born by a group of people.

2. 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 Old Testament.
(d) The New Testament.

3. What does the narrator define as a phenomenon where a person is unaware of a flash of intelligence?
(a) Unconscious stupor.
(b) Unconscious brain spark.
(c) Unconscious intelligence.
(d) Unconscious mind lightening.

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

5. The narrator says he sometimes experiences a lapse of something. From what kind of lapse does he suffer?
(a) Appetite.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Alcoholic.
(d) Attention.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, who are the only people who actually think in life?

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

3. What makes man long for a father figure to guide him, according to the narrator?

4. Who does the narrator visit in the country?

5. When does the narrator say he feels more like himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say his job and his rented room represent?

2. Why does the narrator say that don't people change their lives, even when repulsed by them?

3. What does the narrator say about the difference in sunrises between the city and country?

4. Explain the narrator's statement that there are two types of artists.

5. Who helped the narrator get his job, and why does he value the job?

6. What correlation between Christianity and romanticism does the narrator make?

7. What are the narrator's thoughts regarding travel?

8. Explain the narrator's transformation from his day job to his writing.

9. Why does the narrator say he anticipates upcoming events in life?

10. How does the narrator define unconscious intelligence, and to what does he compare it?

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