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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the author die?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1999.

2. What is a semiheteronym?
(a) The opposite of a semiantonym.
(b) The opposit of a pseudonym.
(c) A persona that isn't too far away from the writer's personality.
(d) A term that refers to the writer who questions his/her own sexuality.

3. What does the narrator say is done not only to the body, but also to the soul?
(a) The act of fighting.
(b) The act of acting.
(c) The act of clothing.
(d) The act of tedium.

4. What advice does the narrator have for business owners?
(a) Know how to do every aspect of your business.
(b) Hire a good bookkeeper.
(c) Leave the labor to the professionals.
(d) Micro-manage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, who are the only people who actually think in life?

2. What does the narrator say allows poison to enter the human heart?

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

4. What does the narrator believe people should groom the same way they groom their bodies?

5. What kind of feeling does the narrator say that tedium creates?

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