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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The writer describes himself in many ways. By the end of Part 1, Chapter 2, he compares himself to a hunchback, and gives himself what character trait?
(a) Unpleasent looking.
(b) Honorable.
(c) Disabled.
(d) Quick to take offense.

2. What does the writer state is the only purpose of intelligent people?
(a) To fine primary causes.
(b) To think.
(c) To define laws.
(d) To chatter.

3. Who does the writer say would not understand the feelings of men about their decisions?
(a) Those who have never been slapped.
(b) Men of action.
(c) The weak and weary.
(d) The strong willed.

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

5. How big does the writer state his rational capacity is compared to his capacity to live?
(a) 1/10th
(b) 1/5th
(c) They are equal.
(d) 1/20th.

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

7. What is the only thing that can stop a vengeful man?
(a) His friends.
(b) Victory.
(c) His conscience.
(d) The wall.

8. What does the writer say being too conscious is?
(a) An illness.
(b) A blessing.
(c) A weakness.
(d) A virtue.

9. Why would the writer confess to wrongdoing when he is innocent?
(a) Just to apologize.
(b) To save a friend.
(c) Out of spite.
(d) He is always at fault.

10. What does the writer suggest is the result of these feelings about the wall?
(a) Relief.
(b) Pain.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Agony.

11. How long has the writer been underground?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 40 years.

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

13. What does the writer regret not doing more of in his life?
(a) Love others.
(b) Slap others.
(c) Seek vengeance.
(d) Complain more often.

14. What does the writer say about the offense he took for various things in his life?
(a) It is inconsequential.
(b) It is deliberate.
(c) It is because of his difficult life.
(d) He thinks he is cursed.

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) Nothing.
(c) Give up hope.
(d) Live a lie.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the writer say he would like to become?

3. In Part 1, Chapter 3, the writer again discusses the wall and suggests how various types of people may perceive the wall. What does he say that some people do when they are faced with the wall?

4. What is a Waganheims?

5. What does the writer say about the laws of mathematics and nature?

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