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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sight makes the narrator wish he had the "gift of ruthless self-expression?"
(a) Rainbow.
(b) Rain.
(c) Sunrise.
(d) Sunset.

2. What poet has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?
(a) Verde.
(b) Pope.
(c) Longfellow.
(d) Frost.

3. From which mode does the narrator usually experience things?
(a) Religious.
(b) Practical.
(c) Sensory.
(d) Intellectual.

4. The narrator says he does not need fast automobiles to understand what speed is like. How does he experience speed?
(a) In his thoughts.
(b) In his daily routine.
(c) At night.
(d) In his dreams.

5. How many times has the narrator been in love?
(a) Twice.
(b) A dozen or more times.
(c) Once.
(d) Never.

6. What is the narrator doing any time he is not interacting with people?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Painting.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Sleeping.

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

8. Where does the narrator's train trip take him?
(a) From Ireland to Wales.
(b) From Warsaw to Moscow.
(c) Between Paris and Callais.
(d) Between Lisbon and Cascais.

9. Who concerns themselves with the mystical aspect of Rabbinic Judaism?
(a) Kabbalists.
(b) Catholics.
(c) Buddists.
(d) Hindus.

10. What does the narrator say that people who must experience things directly lack?
(a) Faith.
(b) Religion.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Money.

11. What does the narrator's only sense of peace comes from reading?
(a) The New Testament.
(b) The works of the Classical writers.
(c) Psalms and Proverbs specifically.
(d) The Old Testament.

12. Who does the narrator visit in the country?
(a) A cousin.
(b) His mother.
(c) An aunt.
(d) A friend.

13. At what unusual time are the people in the narrator's office forced to turn off the electrical lights?
(a) 4 p.m.
(b) 1 p.m.
(c) 2 p.m.
(d) 10 a.m.

14. What does the narrator say will contain little intelligence and much stupidity?
(a) Any idea born in his workplace.
(b) Any idea based on religion rather than intellect.
(c) Any idea born by a group of people.
(d) Any idea he offers.

15. What is the reason that the people in the narrator's office are forced to turn off the electrical lights at an unusual time?
(a) Thunderstorm.
(b) Hurricane.
(c) Cost.
(d) Tornado.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator define as a phenomenon where a person is unaware of a flash of intelligence?

2. Who is the narrator of The Book of Disquiet?

3. What is the subject of the lithograph that the narrator describes?

4. Why does the narrator say poetry should be written by children?

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

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