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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 109 - 150.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator fancy himself to be?
(a) A writer.
(b) An infant.
(c) An actor.
(d) A painter.

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

3. What is the real purpose of literature, according to the narrator?
(a) To inform.
(b) To entertain the highly educated elite.
(c) To give the writer a creative outlet.
(d) To entertain the masses.

4. What is the narrator's day job?
(a) Writer of books.
(b) Assistant bookkeeper.
(c) Poet.
(d) Cashier at a store.

5. How does the narrator describe his own face in a photo of him and his work associates?
(a) Bright and friendly.
(b) Aging and lacking potential promotion.
(c) Bland and lacking interest.
(d) Lifeless and lacking in intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator believe people should groom the same way they groom their bodies?

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

3. According to the narrator, what is it that people really love of other people?

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

5. How does being around other people and talking with them make the narrator feel?

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