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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the writer say irrationality stems from?
(a) Lack of education.
(b) Impropriety.
(c) Will.
(d) Desire.

2. 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 truly in pain.
(d) He is weak.

3. What is a troglodyte?
(a) The will of man.
(b) Hermit.
(c) A man in pain.
(d) Gentleman.

4. In Part 1, the writer describes his previous employment and attitude toward the job and the people he worked with. After going through this explanation, what does he say about this description?
(a) It is a lie out of spite.
(b) He should have acted more professional.
(c) His attitude is the reason he got fired.
(d) He is satisified with his attitude.

5. What would happen to a man who tries to assert himself?
(a) He would die.
(b) He would understand reason.
(c) He would go mad.
(d) He would succeed.

6. How does the writer define desire?
(a) A law of nature.
(b) An unwillfull act of man.
(c) A justification to do wrong.
(d) As a manifestation of life.

7. What is a Waganheims?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Dentist.
(c) A nobleman.
(d) Man of Action.

8. What does the writer state is man's ultimate shortcoming?
(a) Ungratefullness.
(b) Will.
(c) Continual impropriety.
(d) Abillity to love others.

9. The writer describes a man who knew every thing about Chateau-Lafite. How does the writer say this man dies?
(a) A lonely man.
(b) Peacefully.
(c) With regrets.
(d) With a triumphant conscience.

10. When the writer states that there is something wrong with his liver, why does he refuse to go to a doctor?
(a) He does not trust doctors.
(b) His illness is imaginary.
(c) Out of spite.
(d) He can not afford it.

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

12. The writer goes on to explain what men do because they cannot change. What does the writer think men do in this instance?
(a) Live a lie.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Give up hope.
(d) Become men of action.

13. Under what condition would a man only have to sleep, eat, and complain?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Economic prosperity.
(c) Contentment.
(d) Peace.

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

15. Although the writer states that he eventually begins to believe certain things about his illness, how does he feel about it in the beginning?
(a) He is different because of it.
(b) Ashamed.
(c) Excited.
(d) Normal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the writer question regarding a character trait when a man experiences self humiliation?

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

4. When a man identifies the primary cause of an action, how does he go about this action?

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

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