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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 382 - 436.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, in addition to dreams, does the narrator say can substitute life?
(a) Entertaining.
(b) Music.
(c) Art.
(d) Movies.

2. What characteristic trait does the narrator believe he likes because he holds this characteristic in his own soul?
(a) Pompous.
(b) Pettiness.
(c) Pioneering.
(d) Pathetic.

3. What does the narrator credit for the idea of romantic love?
(a) Dreaming.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Satan.
(d) Individual faith.

4. Why does the narrator's dreaming become painful?
(a) He is suffering from insomnia.
(b) The dreams seem so real to him.
(c) He's sleeping on a bad mattress.
(d) It is drug-induced.

5. What does the narrator say is the best way to ignore life?
(a) Writing.
(b) Reading.
(c) Watching television.
(d) Dreaming.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what natural occurrence does the narrator liken his own feelings of tedium?

2. What does the narrator say is the worst thing that can happen to a writer who has completed a work?

3. Which of the narrator's beliefs seems to change daily?

4. What smell brings back memories of the narrator's childhood?

5. How does the narrator think that others see him?

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