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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 41 - 70.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator's only sense of peace comes from reading?
(a) The New Testament.
(b) Psalms and Proverbs specifically.
(c) The Old Testament.
(d) The works of the Classical writers.

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

5. Who does the narrator visit in the country?
(a) An aunt.
(b) A cousin.
(c) A friend.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Book of Disquiet?

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

3. What is the only thing the narrator recognizes as reality?

4. Who is the narrator's boss?

5. When does the narrator believe he is truly able to be himself?

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