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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the narrator, what is a cult not worthy of worship?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Hindu.

3. What advice does the narrator have for business owners?
(a) Hire a good bookkeeper.
(b) Leave the labor to the professionals.
(c) Micro-manage.
(d) Know how to do every aspect of your business.

4. How does the narrator describe his own face in a photo of him and his work associates?
(a) Lifeless and lacking in intelligence.
(b) Bright and friendly.
(c) Bland and lacking interest.
(d) Aging and lacking potential promotion.

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

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

7. What, in addition to dreams, does the narrator say can substitute life?
(a) Art.
(b) Entertaining.
(c) Movies.
(d) Music.

8. What source does the author use frequently for the imagery of his descriptions and definitions?
(a) Nature.
(b) Religious terminology.
(c) The dictionary.
(d) Literary terms.

9. According to the narrator, what is the result of the disappearance of Christianity?
(a) Satanism.
(b) Hedonism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Romanticism.

10. What does the narrator believe causes him to want things, only to show him that he cannot have them?
(a) Cruelty.
(b) Fate.
(c) Destiny.
(d) Faith.

11. What about the novels he reads makes the narrator cry?
(a) The characters all seem so happy.
(b) He can't meet the characters in reality.
(c) Novels that are more than 500 pages.
(d) He cannot change the characters to his own way of thinking.

12. What is the subject of the lithograph that the narrator describes?
(a) An old lady.
(b) A sad girl.
(c) A mischievious boy.
(d) A doctor.

13. What does the narrator believe differentiates him from other people?
(a) His active religious life.
(b) His active studies of human spirit.
(c) His active thinking life.
(d) His active social life.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's only sense of peace comes from reading?

2. The narrator says he belongs to a group that keeps distant from things. What word does he use to describe this distance?

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

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

5. What does the narrator say will contain little intelligence and much stupidity?

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