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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What characteristic trait does the narrator believe he likes because he holds this characteristic in his own soul?
(a) Pettiness.
(b) Pompous.
(c) Pathetic.
(d) Pioneering.

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

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

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

5. What further sickens the narrator about the common human beings?
(a) Walking among them and listening to them talk.
(b) Watching a couple hold hands in the park.
(c) Seeing them play with their children.
(d) Seeing a high school graduation ceremony.

6. What, according to the narrator, is better than any destination one could travel to see?
(a) Sleep.
(b) The trip you take in your imagination.
(c) The trip you take to the altar to commit your life to the Lord.
(d) Nothing.

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

8. After rereading some of his writings, what does the narrator think of them?
(a) He has too many grammatical errors.
(b) They are timeless classics.
(c) They should be published soon.
(d) They are worthless.

9. 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) Cost.
(b) Tornado.
(c) Thunderstorm.
(d) Hurricane.

10. Who admits to not reading the narrator's writings because he cannot understand them?
(a) The narrator himself.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) The narrator's editor.
(d) The narrator's boss.

11. Why doesn't the narrator do any good deeds?
(a) It's too time consuming.
(b) They might spark evil outcome.
(c) He doesn't get paid to do good deeds.
(d) He can't think of any.

12. According to the narrator, what do people realize as Christianity begins to disappear?
(a) How much damage it has done.
(b) That they are lost and need to be saved.
(c) How much more they need.
(d) That there is no eternity after all.

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

14. What does sunrise in the city make the narrator do?
(a) Awaken.
(b) Live.
(c) Think.
(d) Sleep.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say would be burdensome to him?

2. What is the narrator doing any time he is not interacting with people?

3. How does rain make the narrator feel?

4. To live each day to its fullest, what does the narrator say one must do?

5. What does the narrator expect out of life?

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