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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the writer say about those in other countries with regard to romanticism?
(a) They are lucky.
(b) They are uneducated.
(c) They are wasting their time.
(d) They are fools.

2. 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?
(a) Disabled.
(b) Quick to take offense.
(c) Unpleasent looking.
(d) Honorable.

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

4. 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 keep their illness a secret.
(b) They take pride in them.
(c) They flaunt their illnesses.
(d) They are ashamed of their illnesses.

5. When a man identifies the primary cause of an action, how does he go about this action?
(a) Cautiously.
(b) Calmly.
(c) With primary cause, there is no reason to take action.
(d) With force.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the writer describe a man of action?

3. Why would the writer lower his eyes when he comes in contact with the office clerks?

4. During Part 1, Chapter 6, the readers learn that the writer is how old?

5. How does the writer describe St. Petersburg?

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