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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the narrator say he feels more like himself?
(a) When he is with his mother.
(b) When he is alone in the park.
(c) When he is at a party.
(d) When he is sleepy.

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

3. What does the narrator say is a product of dreams, a copy of real life?
(a) Religion.
(b) Art.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Literature.

4. What does the narrator say is the best way to ignore life?
(a) Dreaming.
(b) Watching television.
(c) Reading.
(d) Writing.

5. According to the narrator, who are the only people who actually think in life?
(a) Psychologists and psychiatrists.
(b) Mystics and ascetics.
(c) Poets.
(d) Monks and nuns.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the narrator doing any time he is not interacting with people?

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

4. What, in addition to dreaming, does the narrator say makes up his life?

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

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