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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 342 - 381.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After pointing out a play that he describes as terribly flawed, how does the narrator say he would have felt to be the author of that play?
(a) Encouraged.
(b) Pitiful.
(c) Embarrassed.
(d) Proud.

3. What complaint does the narrator make about the Tagus River in Section 79?
(a) People have turned it into recreation.
(b) It is too narrow.
(c) It has a bad smell.
(d) It's natural beauty has been destroyed.

4. Whose life is like a ball of tangled yarn?
(a) Intelligent people's.
(b) Common people's.
(c) Soares's.
(d) Religious group members.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What remained constant about the scales the girl played on her instrument when she lived above the narrator?

2. What does the narrator say is a disease born from civilization?

3. What poet has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?

4. What does the narrator say is an offensive form of human stupidity?

5. The narrator says humans outwardly worship perfection. What does he say they do secretly?

(see the answer key)

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