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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Make everything beautiful.
(b) Live honorably.
(c) Rid the world of distastful things.
(d) Be a drunkard.

2. What does the writer say has offended him all of his life?
(a) The good nature of others.
(b) Other men.
(c) Gravity.
(d) The laws of nature.

3. What does the writer compare his writings to?
(a) The man faced with the wall.
(b) The mouse.
(c) The Waganheims.
(d) The moan of a man with a toothache.

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

5. What does the writer question regarding a character trait when a man experiences self humiliation?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Patience.
(c) Respect.
(d) Honor.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a man identifies the primary cause of an action, how does he go about this action?

2. What does the writer state is a privilege of man that no other animal has?

3. What would a content man do to rebel against the laws of nature?

4. While the writer explains man's reasoning for taking revenge, why can he himself not seek revenge?

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

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