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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapters I, II and III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An individual is justified in being what according to the law of heightened consciousness?
(a) An intellectual.
(b) A scoundrel.
(c) A sick man.
(d) A man of action.

2. What does the writer say all men must accept?
(a) Nature.
(b) The wall.
(c) Pain.
(d) Consciousness.

3. What type of person does the writer think could not desire something that is to his disadvantage?
(a) Uneducated.
(b) Man of action.
(c) Educated.
(d) The gentleman.

4. What two things does the writer state are most precious to man?
(a) Personality and individuality.
(b) Love and family.
(c) Desire and acceptance.
(d) Revenge and education.

5. Why does the writer want to continue living?
(a) Satisfy his rational capacity.
(b) To learn to be a man of action.
(c) To satisfy his capacity for living.
(d) To spite the gentlemen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the writer feel about his dreams in this section?

2. What does the writer suggest he would be able to do, if scientists found the formula for life?

3. What does the writer state is man's ultimate shortcoming?

4. As Dostoevsky develops the writer, what does the reader learn about his physical condition?

5. What fundamental law does the writer say governs this dilemma of change?

(see the answer key)

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