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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 based on religion rather than intellect.
(b) Any idea born by a group of people.
(c) Any idea he offers.
(d) Any idea born in his workplace.

2. What does the narrator believe people do because they are unable to change their own attitudes?
(a) Revolt.
(b) Marry.
(c) Watch TV.
(d) Fall in love.

3. What does the narrator credit for the idea of romantic love?
(a) Dreaming.
(b) Individual faith.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Satan.

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

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

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

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

8. What, in addition to dreaming, does the narrator say makes up his life?
(a) Action.
(b) Crying.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Thinking.

9. What does the narrator believe people should groom the same way they groom their bodies?
(a) Their destiny.
(b) Their finances.
(c) Their religious faith.
(d) Their children.

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

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

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

13. When does the narrator say he feels more like himself?
(a) When he is alone in the park.
(b) When he is with his mother.
(c) When he is at a party.
(d) When he is sleepy.

14. Who helped the narrator get his job?
(a) His mother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes man long for a father figure to guide him, according to the narrator?

2. According to the narrator, what is the result of the disappearance of Christianity?

3. Who does the narrator visit in the country?

4. Which people does the narrator describe as stupid, insensitive, and uptight?

5. What is the reason that the people in the narrator's office are forced to turn off the electrical lights at an unusual time?

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