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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the office boy travel?
(a) Through collected photos.
(b) He doesn't get to travel any more since he is now working.
(c) During his vacation week.
(d) Day trips on weekends.

2. Why is the narrator sad to see the office boy quit?
(a) He is jealous.
(b) He sees so much potential in the boy.
(c) He feels like he's losing a part of his life.
(d) He has developed a close relationship with the boy.

3. How many sections does The Book of Disquiet have?
(a) 481.
(b) 281.
(c) 451.
(d) 518.

4. After pointing out a play that he describes as terribly flawed, how does the narrator say he would have felt to be the author of that play?
(a) Embarrassed.
(b) Proud.
(c) Encouraged.
(d) Pitiful.

5. Why does the narrator say he believes animals are not happy?
(a) Because of their keen senses.
(b) Because they have no knowledge of happiness.
(c) Because they have smaller brains.
(d) Because they do not have a soul.

6. What does the narrator say are the only memories that exist?
(a) Memories of his mother.
(b) Memories of his father.
(c) Memories of literature.
(d) Memories of school.

7. When does the narrator begin to think of writing as unappealing?
(a) After the critic finds fault with his work.
(b) When his mother tells him his writing is lousy.
(c) After he is told he is not physically appealing.
(d) After his book is rejected by a publisher.

8. To what natural occurrence does the narrator liken his own feelings of tedium?
(a) Fog.
(b) Rainbow.
(c) Rain.
(d) Snow.

9. What ends the narrator's comfort and familiarity at the location he discusses in Section 481?
(a) Learning that the store would be closing soon.
(b) Learning about the stand being robbled.
(c) Learning that the harvest season has ended.
(d) Learning that one of the barber's died.

10. Why does the narrator's dreaming become painful?
(a) The dreams seem so real to him.
(b) He is suffering from insomnia.
(c) It is drug-induced.
(d) He's sleeping on a bad mattress.

11. Who is Omar Khayyám?
(a) A religious leader.
(b) A sage.
(c) A fortune teller.
(d) A king.

12. What kind of people make the narrator feel physically sick?
(a) Common.
(b) Rich.
(c) Eccentric.
(d) Poor.

13. What does the narrator say he has inside him despite the appearance of being outwardly calm?
(a) Heaven and hell.
(b) Anger in his crushed soul.
(c) Joy in his soul.
(d) A crushed spirit.

14. What does the narrator say allows poison to enter the human heart?
(a) Tedium.
(b) Religion.
(c) Money.
(d) Mirrors.

15. Who, according to the narrator, is more seriously affected by tedium?
(a) People who are not religtious.
(b) People who work.
(c) People who don't work.
(d) People who are religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which season does the narrator generally discuss?

2. What does the narrator say a person must do in order to truly love something?

3. Why does the narrator suggest that intelligent, sensitive people should remain as uneducated as possible?

4. Who hates to read the newspaper?

5. In what genre does The Book of Disquiet best fit?

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