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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1, Part 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not "a certain young novelists...liking" in "The Writer on Holiday"?
(a) Reblochon cheese.
(b) Breakfast stouts.
(c) Lavender-honey.
(d) Pretty girls.

2. The author makes the statement that a wrestler is ________ "in broad daylight and in the sight of all"?
(a) Tortured.
(b) Crucified.
(c) Humiliated.
(d) Murdered.

3. The author argues that, ultimately, wrestlers are what?
(a) Unenviable.
(b) Actors.
(c) Entrepreneurs.
(d) Con artists.

4. "Which phrase concludes "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat"?
(a) "A genuine poetics of exploration."
(b) "Can make man proceed from a psycho-analysis of the cave."
(c) "It constantly begets departure."
(d) "Which comes close to the infinite."

5. What do the toys of current society do, that disheartens the author?
(a) Support an uneducated society.
(b) Die very quickly.
(c) Block the foundation for creativity.
(d) Taint children's morale.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which types of toys is the author more fond of?

2. How is the following quote from "The World of Wrestling" finished: "the virtue of all-in wrestling is that it is the spectacle of _____."

3. "In France, drunkenness is a _____." How is this quote from "Wine and Milk" finished?

4. Which two organizations are referred to in "Operation Margarine"?

5. What religious sect is referred to in "Novels and Children"?

(see the answer key)

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