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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 1, Chapter 3, what does the writer say a wall is, to a man of action?
(a) A deterrent.
(b) Simply a small obstacle.
(c) A fact of life.
(d) A challenge.

2. What does the writer state is a privilege of man that no other animal has?
(a) The ability to defy laws of nature.
(b) The ability to swear.
(c) Revenge.
(d) The ability to do good deeds.

3. 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.

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

5. An individual is justified in being what according to the law of heightened consciousness?
(a) A sick man.
(b) An intellectual.
(c) A scoundrel.
(d) A man of action.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the writer say man is in the eyes of nature?

2. What type of deeds does the writer admit to committing?

3. When the writer states that there is something wrong with his liver, why does he refuse to go to a doctor?

4. How does the writer describe St. Petersburg?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the writer think will happen if scientists find a formula that predicts where desires originate?

2. Why does the writer think man sometimes desires nonsense?

3. How does the writer turn a negative characteristic such as laziness into a positive characteristic?

4. What does the writer state these men think about their own groaning?

5. Who does the writer say will submit to the wall?

6. How does the writer explain the reason for man of action being a dull-witted person?

7. In the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 3, the writer poses a question about revenge. How does he state that men are able to take revenge on another?

8. What type of man makes the writer envious?

9. How does the writer continue to explain a man of action's seemingly dull-witted actions and justifications?

10. In Part 1, Chapter 8, the writer attributes many qualities to mankind. Does he finish with any specific conclusion of man, and if so ,what?

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