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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 lie does the narrator tell a clerk about his feelings about being alone?
(a) He is not allowed to be left alone.
(b) He is never alone.
(c) He loves to be alone.
(d) He doesn't like to be alone.

2. What is the subject of the lithograph that the narrator describes?
(a) A sad girl.
(b) A mischievious boy.
(c) An old lady.
(d) A doctor.

3. What does the person who enjoys being sick like about having fever?
(a) Fever makes the person sweat and become pure again.
(b) Fever makes thoughts, feelings, and emotions become all jumbled together
(c) Fever makes the person get extra attention and medication.
(d) Fever makes the person hallucinate.

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

5. What does the narrator say is a disease born from civilization?
(a) Illiteracy.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What simple change does the narrator says has a liberating affect on one's spirit?

2. What smell brings back memories of the narrator's childhood?

3. What is the only thing the narrator recognizes as reality?

4. To what natural occurrence does the narrator liken his own feelings of tedium?

5. What characteristic trait does the narrator believe he likes because he holds this characteristic in his own soul?

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