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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapters IX and X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the human characteristic based on?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Love.
(c) Mistakes.
(d) Laws of nature.

2. How does the writer feel about the time of his arrival at the dinner party?
(a) Happy.
(b) Ashamed.
(c) Appalled.
(d) Indifferent.

3. What does the writer state he would like his own will to coincide with?
(a) The majority.
(b) His understanding of the world.
(c) His education.
(d) His normal interests.

4. What is the purpose of the dinner party?
(a) To visit with the writer, whom the others had not see in years.
(b) One of the firends is going on a journey.
(c) It is a weekly event.
(d) To celebrate the promotion of one of the friends.

5. The day after the dinner party, the writer goes for a walk. At what time does he return home?
(a) 2:00 am.
(b) 9:00 pm.
(c) 11:00 pm.
(d) 1:00 am.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part 2, Liza visits the writer at his home. Upset by this, how does the writer say he would take revenge on his visitor?

3. What fundamental law does the writer say governs this dilemma of change?

4. What does the writer compare a man to when he is consumed with revenge?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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