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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. How is the following quote from "The World of Wrestling" finished: "the virtue of all-in wrestling is that it is the spectacle of _____."
(a) Confrontation.
(b) Anger.
(c) Reason.
(d) Excess.

2. In "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat," what are most ships in legend of fiction?
(a) "Round, smooth universe."
(b) "Painful objects of captivity."
(c) "Enjoyed vessels."
(d) "Necessity to dreams."

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

4. What sort of wrestling does the author define as portraying the ongoing battle between good and evil in "The World of Wrestling"?
(a) British wrestling.
(b) Russian wrestling.
(c) American wrestling.
(d) French wrestling.

5. "The storm, that is, the infinite, rages in ______." How is quote from "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat" finished?
(a) Vain.
(b) Perplexity.
(c) Terror.
(d) Misery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the following quote from "The Poor and the Proletariat" finished: "the proletarian is still the man who is ______"?

2. In "Wine and Milk," what is the opposite of wine?

3. What river is referenced in the first sentence of "The Writer on Holiday?"

4. The author says that writer he discusses in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat" creates a world that needs only what to exist?

5. What does the ship become in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat"?

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