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

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

3. What does the narrator prefer to write?
(a) Prose.
(b) Haiku.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Scripts for three act plays.

4. According to the narrator, who are the only people who actually think in life?
(a) Psychologists and psychiatrists.
(b) Monks and nuns.
(c) Poets.
(d) Mystics and ascetics.

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

6. What is the only thing the narrator recognizes as reality?
(a) The love of God.
(b) The unconditional love of his mother.
(c) His own sensations.
(d) The unconditional love of his father.

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

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

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

10. 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.

11. Who is the author of The Book of Disquiet?
(a) Moreira.
(b) Soares.
(c) Vasquez.
(d) Pessoa.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator suggest may exist in several dimensions including space, the ego, and the ideal?

2. What does the narrator expect out of life?

3. What does the narrator fancy himself to be?

4. At what unusual time are the people in the narrator's office forced to turn off the electrical lights?

5. What does the narrator say is a product of dreams, a copy of real life?

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