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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a heteronym?
(a) A term that refers to the sexuality of a writer.
(b) The opposite of an antonym.
(c) A different persona of a writer.
(d) Both an antonym and a pseudonym.

2. Where was the manuscript for this book discovered?
(a) Hidden in a basement.
(b) In a car.
(c) Between pages of a dictionary.
(d) In a trunk.

3. Whose life is like a ball of tangled yarn?
(a) Intelligent people's.
(b) Religious group members.
(c) Common people's.
(d) Soares's.

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

5. 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) Pitiful.
(b) Proud.
(c) Encouraged.
(d) Embarrassed.

6. Why does the narrator contend that a person cannot truly love another person?
(a) It is impossible to fear a mere human.
(b) It is impossible to respect humanity.
(c) A person never really knows another person.
(d) A person cannot own another person.

7. How does the narrator think that others see him?
(a) As a romantic writer.
(b) As a stranger or intruder.
(c) As a very intelligent, sensitve man.
(d) As a freak.

8. Why does the narrator suggest that intelligent, sensitive people should remain as uneducated as possible?
(a) To fit in with the common people and be happy.
(b) Because everyone should strive to be common.
(c) Because they will never be appreciated by the common people.
(d) Because common people rule by majority.

9. According to the narrator, what kind of people own the world?
(a) Common.
(b) Unfeeling.
(c) Rich.
(d) Intelligent.

10. What does the narrator say causes him to be even more sensitive to the things of the world?
(a) Trying to fit in with the common people.
(b) Trying to break away from the world.
(c) Trying to fit in with the intelligent people.
(d) Trying to break away from the intelligent people.

11. In what year was The Book of Disquiet first published in English?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1982.

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

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

14. Where are the objects of nature located that the narrator discusses when he describes Spring?
(a) The country.
(b) The city.
(c) England.
(d) The suburbs.

15. What does the person who enjoys being sick like about having fever?
(a) Fever makes the person hallucinate.
(b) Fever makes the person get extra attention and medication.
(c) Fever makes thoughts, feelings, and emotions become all jumbled together
(d) Fever makes the person sweat and become pure again.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator multi-task?

2. The narrator says humans outwardly worship perfection. What does he say they do secretly?

3. What kind of feeling does the narrator say that tedium creates?

4. What inventions does the narrator say are due to the evolution of man into a clothed creature?

5. What does the narrator say he believes readers might think he is at the end of the book?

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