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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says that other people live through their feelings. What does he say that he lives through?
(a) His faith.
(b) His thoughts.
(c) His religion.
(d) His spirituality.

2. In what condition does the narrator seem to believe that all other people live in daily?
(a) Unconscious bravery.
(b) Unconscious stupor.
(c) Unconscious intelligence.
(d) Unconscious sleep.

3. What does the narrator expect out of life?
(a) Disappointment.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Fame.
(d) Great wealth.

4. What does the narrator say is the worst thing that can happen to a writer who has completed a work?
(a) He realizes it's no good.
(b) He realizes it hurts someone's feelings.
(c) He realizes it is not true.
(d) He realizes he has plagarized.

5. Who wrote the play that the narrator discusses as terribly flawed?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Williams.
(c) Ford.
(d) Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say are the only memories that exist?

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

3. Who does the narrator say should hope for a way to retire and not have to think about life?

4. When does the narrator begin to think of writing as unappealing?

5. What sight makes the narrator wish he had the "gift of ruthless self-expression?"

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