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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 261 - 301.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does the narrator have for business owners?
(a) Hire a good bookkeeper.
(b) Know how to do every aspect of your business.
(c) Leave the labor to the professionals.
(d) Micro-manage.

2. The narrator says humans outwardly worship perfection. What does he say they do secretly?
(a) Hate it.
(b) Conspire to achieve it.
(c) Covet it.
(d) Nothing.

3. What does the narrator say is the worst thing that can happen to a writer who has completed a work?
(a) He realizes it's no good.
(b) He realizes it is not true.
(c) He realizes it hurts someone's feelings.
(d) He realizes he has plagarized.

4. How does being around other people and talking with them make the narrator feel?
(a) Tired.
(b) Energized.
(c) Inspired.
(d) Confused.

5. Who wrote the play that the narrator discusses as terribly flawed?
(a) Ford.
(b) Williams.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. After pointing out a play that he describes as terribly flawed, how does the narrator say he would have felt to be the author of that play?

2. Who, along with a particular poet, has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?

3. Who, according to the narrator, does not realize the difference between the people of the middle class and those of other classes?

4. What does the narrator credit for the idea of romantic love?

5. What source does the author use frequently for the imagery of his descriptions and definitions?

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