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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. Which of the diners states that he almost got married two days before?
(a) Simonov.
(b) The writer.
(c) Trudoliubov.
(d) Zverkov.

2. How does the writer describe the groans of a toothache?
(a) Pleasurable .
(b) Malice.
(c) Unbearable.
(d) Candid.

3. What does the writer feel about men of strong character?
(a) They are limited.
(b) There are very few of them.
(c) They run the world.
(d) They are without limits.

4. In what does the writer find pleasure?
(a) The wall.
(b) A toothache.
(c) Confrontation.
(d) The agony of others.

5. What does the writer say about the man who groans from a toothache for more than three or four days?
(a) He is eliciting sympathy.
(b) His groans are out of spite.
(c) He is weak.
(d) He is truly in pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the writer state he would like his own will to coincide with?

2. In Part 2, a number of event happen to the writer, including going to a dinner party with old friends and meeting a prostitute. How does the writer feel about the events that happen that day?

3. In Part 1, Chapter 3, what does the writer say a wall is, to a man of action?

4. What justification does the writer give for his behavior?

5. What does the writer say has offended him all of his life?

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