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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 184 - 221.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. What further sickens the narrator about the common human beings?
(a) Seeing a high school graduation ceremony.
(b) Walking among them and listening to them talk.
(c) Watching a couple hold hands in the park.
(d) Seeing them play with their children.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what unusual time are the people in the narrator's office forced to turn off the electrical lights?

2. According to the narrator, what is it that people really love of other people?

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

4. What does the narrator fancy himself to be?

5. Where does the narrator spend his three-day vacation?

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