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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 437 - 455.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator refer to tedium?
(a) As cancer.
(b) As a disease.
(c) As a goal all should strive to achieve.
(d) As a multiple personality disorder.

2. Who does the narrator believe is the only one who knows his heart?
(a) His mother.
(b) Himself.
(c) God.
(d) His father.

3. From which mode does the narrator usually experience things?
(a) Religious.
(b) Sensory.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Practical.

4. What further sickens the narrator about the common human beings?
(a) Walking among them and listening to them talk.
(b) Watching a couple hold hands in the park.
(c) Seeing a high school graduation ceremony.
(d) Seeing them play with their children.

5. The narrator says he sometimes experiences a lapse of something. From what kind of lapse does he suffer?
(a) Attention.
(b) Appetite.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Alcoholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he has inside him despite the appearance of being outwardly calm?

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

3. Whose life is described his life as being similar to a person who has wrecked his ship on a calm sea in shallow water?

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

5. Why does the narrator's dreaming become painful?

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