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

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

3. What does the narrator prefer to write?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Prose.
(c) Haiku.
(d) Scripts for three act plays.

4. What makes man long for a father figure to guide him, according to the narrator?
(a) Necessity.
(b) Human nature.
(c) Lack of religious upbringing.
(d) Weakness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator believe people do because they are unable to change their own attitudes?

2. Why will all writing be imperfect, according to the narrator?

3. What does the narrator say are the only memories that exist?

4. Which of the narrator's poems does he like in the present day?

5. Who does the narrator visit in the country?

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