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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 job position -- if it existed -- does the narrator say he would be perfect to fill?
(a) Improver for art.
(b) Royal writer of words.
(c) Examiner of grammar.
(d) Arbiter of elegance.

2. According to the narrator, who are the only people who actually think in life?
(a) Mystics and ascetics.
(b) Psychologists and psychiatrists.
(c) Poets.
(d) Monks and nuns.

3. If reading is a way to dream, who actually guides that dream?
(a) The reader.
(b) The book's author.
(c) The book publisher.
(d) The library.

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

5. After rereading some of his writings, what does the narrator think of them?
(a) They should be published soon.
(b) They are timeless classics.
(c) They are worthless.
(d) He has too many grammatical errors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the narrator doing any time he is not interacting with people?

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

4. How does the narrator describe his own face in a photo of him and his work associates?

5. What does the narrator say is a disease born from civilization?

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