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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 151 - 184.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poet has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?
(a) Pope.
(b) Longfellow.
(c) Verde.
(d) Frost.

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

3. What does the narrator say will contain little intelligence and much stupidity?
(a) Any idea he offers.
(b) Any idea born by a group of people.
(c) Any idea born in his workplace.
(d) Any idea based on religion rather than intellect.

4. To live each day to its fullest, what does the narrator say one must do?
(a) Forget the previous day.
(b) Recall the previous day.
(c) Pick up where the previous day left off.
(d) Do one good deed more than the previous day.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the subject of the lithograph that the narrator describes?

3. How does the narrator describe his own face in a photo of him and his work associates?

4. When does the narrator say he feels more like himself?

5. What does the narrator define as a phenomenon where a person is unaware of a flash of intelligence?

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