View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what kind of man can keep outside influences from changing him?
(a) A gentleman.
(b) A kind man.
(c) A wise man.
(d) A thoughtful man.

2. Where does the narrator spend his three-day vacation?
(a) In the mountains.
(b) In his apartment.
(c) At the beach.
(d) Fishing at a river.

3. What does sunrise in the city make the narrator do?
(a) Live.
(b) Think.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Awaken.

4. What does the narrator say is necessary to become king of the world?
(a) Lots of respect and money.
(b) A large inheritance.
(c) An active imagination.
(d) Good political pull.

5. What does the narrator believe differentiates him from other people?
(a) His active religious life.
(b) His active social life.
(c) His active thinking life.
(d) His active studies of human spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say that people who must experience things directly lack?

2. What is the real purpose of literature, according to the narrator?

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

4. What does the narrator fancy himself to be?

5. What does the narrator call sensations that keep a person from thinking?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 225 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample