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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 does the narrator say is a disease born from civilization?
(a) Illiteracy.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Romanticism.

2. Who, along with a particular poet, has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?
(a) His coworkers.
(b) His inner being.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

3. Who is described as being stoic?
(a) The office boy.
(b) Valquez.
(c) The narrator's brother.
(d) Soares.

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

5. What poet has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?
(a) Pope.
(b) Verde.
(c) Longfellow.
(d) Frost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the narrator, is better than any destination one could travel to see?

2. What advice does the narrator have for business owners?

3. If reading is a way to dream, who actually guides that dream?

4. Who does the narrator believe is the only one who knows his heart?

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

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