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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator credit for the idea of romantic love?
(a) Satan.
(b) Individual faith.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Christianity.

2. In what condition does the narrator seem to believe that all other people live in daily?
(a) Unconscious intelligence.
(b) Unconscious sleep.
(c) Unconscious stupor.
(d) Unconscious bravery.

3. What, in addition to dreaming, does the narrator say makes up his life?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Action.
(d) Crying.

4. Who is the narrator of The Book of Disquiet?
(a) Vasquez.
(b) Soares.
(c) Pessoa.
(d) Moerira.

5. Who is the narrator's boss?
(a) Vasquez.
(b) Soares.
(c) Pessoa.
(d) Moreira.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the narrator, is better than any destination one could travel to see?

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

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

4. The narrator says he sometimes experiences a lapse of something. From what kind of lapse does he suffer?

5. The narrator says that other people live through their feelings. What does he say that he lives through?

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