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

2. What does the writer think of being defined as a lazy fellow?
(a) It is reserved for the weak at heart.
(b) It is a career.
(c) It describes many men.
(d) It signifies death.

3. In Part I, Chapter 1, what does the writer say about himself?
(a) He is a highly educated person.
(b) He is a person of great wealth.
(c) He is a real person.
(d) He is fictional.

4. Why does the writer say a man cannot change, even if he tries?
(a) There is nothing to change into.
(b) His pride would take over.
(c) Man does not have the willpower.
(d) A man cannot change what is in his heart.

5. What does the writer compare a man to when he is consumed with revenge?
(a) A maddened bull.
(b) A wall.
(c) An insect.
(d) A monster.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the writer regard these feelings about the wall?

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

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

4. What does the writer think will become of man's will when it is put in mathematical formulas?

5. The writer states that man could not act against his own personal advantage. What, therefore, must his actions be?

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