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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, according to the narrator, is better than any destination one could travel to see?
(a) Sleep.
(b) The trip you take in your imagination.
(c) The trip you take to the altar to commit your life to the Lord.
(d) Nothing.

2. Who, according to the narrator, does not realize the difference between the people of the middle class and those of other classes?
(a) Revolutionaries.
(b) Managers.
(c) Business owners.
(d) Religious leaders.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What further sickens the narrator about the common human beings?

3. What does the narrator say is an offensive form of human stupidity?

4. Who admits to not reading the narrator's writings because he cannot understand them?

5. What does the narrator say is the only true form of pleasure that exists?

(see the answer key)

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