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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the ultimate result of the writer's always being offended?
(a) It causes his illness.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It eventually becomes true.
(d) It turns him into a sour man.

3. 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) Ashamed.
(b) Normal.
(c) He is different because of it.
(d) Excited.

4. What are some things the writer believes man will never discover?
(a) The meaning of life.
(b) Certain laws of nature.
(c) True happiness.
(d) Justification for revenge.

5. How does the writer describe St. Petersburg?
(a) Paradise.
(b) Like hell on earth.
(c) A beautiful city.
(d) Abstract and premeditated.

6. How does the writer regard these feelings about the wall?
(a) They are incorrect.
(b) They are preposterous.
(c) They are curious.
(d) They are correct.

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

8. What two things does the writer state are most precious to man?
(a) Love and family.
(b) Personality and individuality.
(c) Revenge and education.
(d) Desire and acceptance.

9. How does the writer feel about a man of action?
(a) He despises him.
(b) He feels there is no need for him.
(c) He feels sorry for him.
(d) He envies him.

10. What type of deeds does the writer admit to committing?
(a) Good.
(b) Altruistic.
(c) Selfish.
(d) Vile.

11. What does the writer think of being defined as a lazy fellow?
(a) It is reserved for the weak at heart.
(b) It describes many men.
(c) It is a career.
(d) It signifies death.

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

13. How does the writer describe the current state of the world?
(a) A positive time.
(b) A time of forgiveness.
(c) A negative time.
(d) A time of vengeance.

14. What do others say about the writer's discussion of himself?
(a) He is bragging.
(b) He is interesting.
(c) He is an honorable man.
(d) He is worthless.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of person does the writer think could not desire something that is to his disadvantage?

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

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

4. What does the writer suggest is the result of these feelings about the wall?

5. What is the reason given for the writer's attitude and behavior in this profession?

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