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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. How does the writer feel his life would be if he lived as a man of action?
(a) More interesting.
(b) Boring.
(c) Easier.
(d) More difficult.

2. When the writer goes back to the dinner party after being outside, what does he find?
(a) The others are gone.
(b) The others are talking and laughing.
(c) Only Zverkov remains.
(d) The establishment is closed.

3. What would the writer have to do to buy a pistol?
(a) Get a salary advance.
(b) Buy them on the black market.
(c) Get to the bank before the duel.
(d) Sell some belongings.

4. What do the writer's dreams sometimes cause him to do?
(a) Embrace people.
(b) Commit crimes.
(c) Seclude himself.
(d) Fall in love.

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 lion.
(b) An outsider.
(c) A model citizen.
(d) A mouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the writer describe his personality in his previous profession?

2. Who is Anton Atonych Setchkin?

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

4. What is a troglodyte?

5. What does the writer think a man of action does when faced with a wall?

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