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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what area does Omar Khayyám hail?
(a) France.
(b) Russia.
(c) America.
(d) Persia.

2. Who enjoys being sick?
(a) Valquez.
(b) The office boy.
(c) Soares.
(d) The narrator's mother.

3. What does the narrator say is the only thing worth doing?
(a) Breathing.
(b) Reading.
(c) Seeing.
(d) Living.

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

5. 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) Anger in his crushed soul.
(d) A crushed spirit.

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

7. How does the narrator multi-task?
(a) By sleeping while he works.
(b) By dreaming while he works.
(c) By writing while he works.
(d) By being practical in his art.

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

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

10. 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.

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

12. Which play does the narrator say is terribly flawed?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) King Lear.
(c) A Mid-Summer Night's Dream.
(d) MacBeth.

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

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

15. 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 fit in with the intelligent people.
(c) Trying to break away from the world.
(d) Trying to break away from the intelligent people.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which season does the narrator generally discuss?

3. Who does the narrator say should hope for a way to retire and not have to think about life?

4. What does the person who enjoys being sick like about having fever?

5. How many sections does The Book of Disquiet have?

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