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

2. What is the only thing that a man ever completely owns, according to the narrator?
(a) Prayers.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Love.
(d) Faith.

3. In what year was The Book of Disquiet first published?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1947.

4. What smell brings back memories of the narrator's childhood?
(a) Candy apples.
(b) Cigarette smoke.
(c) Smoked ham.
(d) Cotton Candy.

5. What does the narrator say he lacks sufficient money to be?
(a) A real dreamer.
(b) A Godly man.
(c) A Christian.
(d) An intellectual man.

6. What does the narrator say about the office boy's travels?
(a) Says he is well-travelled in his soul.
(b) Says he is a bother every Monday morning, talking about his weekend trips.
(c) Says he is unimpressed.
(d) Says he wishes the boy would travel somewhere and not come back.

7. In what language was the first edition of The Book of Disquiet first published?
(a) English.
(b) French.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Portugese.

8. What inventions does the narrator say are due to the evolution of man into a clothed creature?
(a) Jeans and t-shirts.
(b) Hair brushes and driers.
(c) Mirrors and wardrobes.
(d) Soap and deodorant.

9. What does the narrator call the act of writing when he begins to view it as unappealing?
(a) Tedium.
(b) Common.
(c) Stoic.
(d) Unoriginal.

10. When did the author complete The Book of Disquiet?
(a) After getting fired.
(b) Before being hospitalized.
(c) While being hospitalized.
(d) Never.

11. What is the writing style in which the writing seems to mimic the author's random thoughts?
(a) Omniscient.
(b) Stream of consciousness.
(c) Fiction.
(d) FIrst person.

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

13. Who wrote the play that the narrator discusses as terribly flawed?
(a) Ford.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Williams.

14. Even though most people make him sick, why does the narrator still love fellow man?
(a) For the fact that he isn't like them.
(b) Out of the kindness of his own heart.
(c) For the respect they show him.
(d) For their ability to be happy.

15. What does the narrator say he believes readers might think he is at the end of the book?
(a) A writer of classics.
(b) A jerk.
(c) A poet.
(d) A dreamer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the only thing worth doing?

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

3. Who, according to the author, is a prime example of the saying "ignorance is bliss?"

4. What lie does the narrator tell a clerk about his feelings about being alone?

5. What kinds of things tend to hurt the narrator easily, according to him?

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