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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters V, VI and VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the writer say is the result of consciousness?
(a) Pain.
(b) Loathing.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Inertia.

2. During Part 1, Chapter 6, the readers learn that the writer is how old?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 45 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 60 years.

3. How does the writer regard these feelings about the wall?
(a) They are preposterous.
(b) They are correct.
(c) They are incorrect.
(d) They are curious.

4. What does the writer suggest is the result of these feelings about the wall?
(a) Pain.
(b) Agony.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Relief.

5. After describing a man of action, the writer notes what how a man of action feels about himself. According to the writer, what does a man of action feel himself to be?
(a) A mouse.
(b) A lion.
(c) An outsider.
(d) A model citizen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a sense of revenge do to a man?

2. What is the reason given for the writer's attitude and behavior in this profession?

3. Although the writer states that he eventually begins to believe certain things about his illness, how does he feel about it in the beginning?

4. An individual is justified in being what according to the law of heightened consciousness?

5. During Part 1, Chapter 6, the writer discusses what he would have done if he had a career. What is it that the writer would have liked to do?

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