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

2. What does the narrator say he has inside him despite the appearance of being outwardly calm?
(a) Joy in his soul.
(b) Heaven and hell.
(c) A crushed spirit.
(d) Anger in his crushed soul.

3. What does the narrator believe causes him to want things, only to show him that he cannot have them?
(a) Faith.
(b) Fate.
(c) Destiny.
(d) Cruelty.

4. Which season does the narrator generally discuss?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

5. What does the narrator say causes people to not have a firm reason for their own existence?
(a) Lack of belief in God or something larger.
(b) They don't realize that they need a reason.
(c) They are too common to understand.
(d) Illiteracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the chapter in which the narrator seems to be declaring his love for some woman?

2. Who enjoys being sick?

3. What is the only thing that a man ever completely owns, according to the narrator?

4. What, in addition to dreaming, does the narrator say makes up his life?

5. What is the reason that the people in the narrator's office are forced to turn off the electrical lights at an unusual time?

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