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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 advice does the narrator have for business owners?
(a) Micro-manage.
(b) Hire a good bookkeeper.
(c) Leave the labor to the professionals.
(d) Know how to do every aspect of your business.

2. Where are the objects of nature located that the narrator discusses when he describes Spring?
(a) England.
(b) The country.
(c) The city.
(d) The suburbs.

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

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

5. In Section 305, the narrator explains that he feeds off of others' thoughts, emotions, and experiences. What does he refer to himself as based on this description?
(a) An intellectual.
(b) A plagarist.
(c) A lifeless lump.
(d) A parasite.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about the novels he reads makes the narrator cry?

2. What remained constant about the scales the girl played on her instrument when she lived above the narrator?

3. What kind of people make up the narrator's life?

4. What, in addition to dreams, does the narrator say can substitute life?

5. According to the narrator, what is developing when a person realizes their greatest area of anxiety is indeed insignificant?

(see the answer key)

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