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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is a product of dreams, a copy of real life?
(a) Literature.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Art.
(d) Religion.

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

3. According to the narrator, what is developing when a person realizes their greatest area of anxiety is indeed insignificant?
(a) Faith.
(b) Responsibility.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Love.

4. What complaint does the narrator make about the Tagus River in Section 79?
(a) It has a bad smell.
(b) It's natural beauty has been destroyed.
(c) People have turned it into recreation.
(d) It is too narrow.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does the narrator call decorative creatures?

3. At what unusual time are the people in the narrator's office forced to turn off the electrical lights?

4. What does the narrator define as a phenomenon where a person is unaware of a flash of intelligence?

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

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