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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 109 - 150.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Section 76, the narrator envisions an actual machine being built to allow people to have what ability?
(a) The ability for self-analysis.
(b) The ability to predict self-fulfillment.
(c) The ability to read thoughts of others.
(d) The ability to determine the worth of potential friends.

2. What does the narrator believe differentiates him from other people?
(a) His active studies of human spirit.
(b) His active thinking life.
(c) His active social life.
(d) His active religious life.

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

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

5. The narrator says he belongs to a group that keeps distant from things. What word does he use to describe this distance?
(a) Incomprehensible.
(b) Decadence.
(c) Sensual.
(d) Isolating.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who admits to not reading the narrator's writings because he cannot understand them?

2. Who is the narrator's boss?

3. What further sickens the narrator about the common human beings?

4. Who is the narrator of The Book of Disquiet?

5. What does the narrator suggest may exist in several dimensions including space, the ego, and the ideal?

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