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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the writer describe the groans of a toothache?
(a) Malice.
(b) Pleasurable .
(c) Candid.
(d) Unbearable.

2. What type of deeds does the writer admit to committing?
(a) Vile.
(b) Altruistic.
(c) Good.
(d) Selfish.

3. How does the writer describe his apartment?
(a) Squalid.
(b) Fancy.
(c) Seedy.
(d) Middle-class.

4. How does the writer say men feel about their decisions a minute after making them?
(a) They regret them.
(b) They are disappointed.
(c) They forget them.
(d) They are pleased.

5. In Part 1, Chapter 2, the writer describes the attitudes men have toward their own illness. What does the writer say about his own and others' attitudes toward their illnesses?
(a) They flaunt their illnesses.
(b) They take pride in them.
(c) They keep their illness a secret.
(d) They are ashamed of their illnesses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the writer say would not understand the feelings of men about their decisions?

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

3. The writer describes himself in many ways. By the end of Part 1, Chapter 2, he compares himself to a hunchback, and gives himself what character trait?

4. What does the writer say about the laws of mathematics and nature?

5. How does the writer feel his life would be if he lived as a man of action?

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