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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of The Book of Disquiet?
(a) Pessoa.
(b) Vasquez.
(c) Soares.
(d) Moreira.

2. What does the narrator define as a phenomenon where a person is unaware of a flash of intelligence?
(a) Unconscious intelligence.
(b) Unconscious brain spark.
(c) Unconscious stupor.
(d) Unconscious mind lightening.

3. What is the subject of the lithograph that the narrator describes?
(a) A doctor.
(b) An old lady.
(c) A sad girl.
(d) A mischievious boy.

4. What is the only thing the narrator recognizes as reality?
(a) The unconditional love of his father.
(b) The love of God.
(c) The unconditional love of his mother.
(d) His own sensations.

5. What does the narrator believe people should groom the same way they groom their bodies?
(a) Their finances.
(b) Their destiny.
(c) Their religious faith.
(d) Their children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say will contain little intelligence and much stupidity?

2. What characteristic trait does the narrator believe he likes because he holds this characteristic in his own soul?

3. The narrator says he belongs to a group that keeps distant from things. What word does he use to describe this distance?

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

5. Where does the narrator's train trip take him?

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