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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 437 - 455.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the writing style in which the writing seems to mimic the author's random thoughts?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Stream of consciousness.
(c) Omniscient.
(d) FIrst person.

2. 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.

3. Who, along with a particular poet, has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His coworkers.
(d) His inner being.

4. How does the narrator refer to tedium?
(a) As a disease.
(b) As a multiple personality disorder.
(c) As a goal all should strive to achieve.
(d) As cancer.

5. How does rain make the narrator feel?
(a) Invigorated.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Sleepy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument did a girl who lived above the narrator play when she lived in the building?

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

3. The narrator says he belongs to a group that keeps distant from things. What word does he use to describe this distance?

4. In Section 76, the narrator envisions an actual machine being built to allow people to have what ability?

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

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