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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Abstracts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say about the office boy's travels?
(a) Says he wishes the boy would travel somewhere and not come back.
(b) Says he is well-travelled in his soul.
(c) Says he is a bother every Monday morning, talking about his weekend trips.
(d) Says he is unimpressed.

2. What does the narrator say he has inside him despite the appearance of being outwardly calm?
(a) A crushed spirit.
(b) Anger in his crushed soul.
(c) Heaven and hell.
(d) Joy in his soul.

3. What kind of feeling does the narrator say that tedium creates?
(a) That nothing can be better than the moment that just passed.
(b) That there is nothing better to do.
(c) That everything must be absolutely perfect.
(d) That every day is worth living.

4. What does the narrator say he believes readers might think he is at the end of the book?
(a) A poet.
(b) A jerk.
(c) A dreamer.
(d) A writer of classics.

5. What is the only thing that a man ever completely owns, according to the narrator?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Prayers.
(c) Faith.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the narrator, is better than any destination one could travel to see?

2. From what area does Omar Khayyám hail?

3. Who does the narrator say should be banned to an island?

4. According to the narrator, what kind of man can keep outside influences from changing him?

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

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