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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator say is necessary to become king of the world?
(a) A large inheritance.
(b) Good political pull.
(c) An active imagination.
(d) Lots of respect and money.

4. Which of the narrator's poems does he like in the present day?
(a) The ones he wrote as a child.
(b) None.
(c) All.
(d) The ones in his head yet to be written.

5. How does rain make the narrator feel?
(a) Sleepy.
(b) Invigorated.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Anxious.

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

7. Who is the narrator of The Book of Disquiet?
(a) Vasquez.
(b) Pessoa.
(c) Soares.
(d) Moerira.

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

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

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

11. What does the narrator fancy himself to be?
(a) A writer.
(b) An infant.
(c) An actor.
(d) A painter.

12. Where does the narrator spend his three-day vacation?
(a) In his apartment.
(b) Fishing at a river.
(c) In the mountains.
(d) At the beach.

13. What is the narrator's day job?
(a) Writer of books.
(b) Cashier at a store.
(c) Poet.
(d) Assistant bookkeeper.

14. What does the narrator say is a product of dreams, a copy of real life?
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Art.
(c) Religion.
(d) Literature.

15. What does the narrator call sensations that keep a person from thinking?
(a) Underdeveloped faith.
(b) Overdeveloped faith.
(c) Overdreamed dreams.
(d) Undreamed dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only thing the narrator recognizes as reality?

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

3. Who is the author of The Book of Disquiet?

4. In Section 76, the narrator envisions an actual machine being built to allow people to have what ability?

5. The narrator says he sometimes experiences a lapse of something. From what kind of lapse does he suffer?

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