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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say man is not intended to see without the help of nature only?
(a) His own face.
(b) Cloud shapes.
(c) The beauty of a tree.
(d) The inner depth of his soul.

3. What kinds of things tend to hurt the narrator easily, according to him?
(a) Criticism from his boss.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Small things.
(d) Comments made by the office boy.

4. When does the narrator believe he is truly able to be himself?
(a) At night.
(b) On stage.
(c) At the office.
(d) In church.

5. The narrator says he sometimes experiences a lapse of something. From what kind of lapse does he suffer?
(a) Attention.
(b) Alcoholic.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Appetite.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose life is described his life as being similar to a person who has wrecked his ship on a calm sea in shallow water?

2. According to the narrator, what is it that people really love of other people?

3. Who helped the narrator get his job?

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

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

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