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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The narrator says he belongs to a group that keeps distant from things. What word does he use to describe this distance?
(a) Incomprehensible.
(b) Decadence.
(c) Isolating.
(d) Sensual.

4. What does the narrator define as a phenomenon where a person is unaware of a flash of intelligence?
(a) Unconscious intelligence.
(b) Unconscious stupor.
(c) Unconscious mind lightening.
(d) Unconscious brain spark.

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

6. According to the narrator, what is it that people really love of other people?
(a) Their concept of other people.
(b) The lustitude of other people.
(c) The bodies of other people.
(d) The spirit of other people.

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

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

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

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

11. What does the narrator say would be burdensome to him?
(a) Family.
(b) Evil deeds.
(c) Writing.
(d) Good deeds.

12. Who, along with a particular poet, has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His coworkers.
(d) His inner being.

13. What does the narrator say is a disease born from civilization?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Illiteracy.

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

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 is not true.
(b) He realizes he has plagarized.
(c) He realizes it's no good.
(d) He realizes it hurts someone's feelings.

Short Answer Questions

1. If reading is a way to dream, who actually guides that dream?

2. Why doesn't the narrator do any good deeds?

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

4. What simple change does the narrator says has a liberating affect on one's spirit?

5. What does the narrator say is necessary to become king of the world?

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