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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is a product of dreams, a copy of real life?
(a) Literature.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Religion.
(d) Art.

2. What does the narrator say will contain little intelligence and much stupidity?
(a) Any idea he offers.
(b) Any idea born in his workplace.
(c) Any idea based on religion rather than intellect.
(d) Any idea born by a group of people.

3. Why doesn't the narrator do any good deeds?
(a) It's too time consuming.
(b) They might spark evil outcome.
(c) He can't think of any.
(d) He doesn't get paid to do good deeds.

4. What does the narrator believe about breaking the laws of grammar?
(a) There should be no laws.
(b) It's never okay.
(c) It's okay sometimes.
(d) They should all be rewritten by him.

5. What does the narrator say that people who must experience things directly lack?
(a) Faith.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Religion.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that other people live through their feelings. What does he say that he lives through?

2. Who concerns themselves with the mystical aspect of Rabbinic Judaism?

3. How does rain make the narrator feel?

4. Where does the narrator's train trip take him?

5. What makes man long for a father figure to guide him, according to the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say about the difference in sunrises between the city and country?

2. Does the narrator do good or evil deeds?

3. What does the narrator say his job and his rented room represent?

4. What correlation between Christianity and romanticism does the narrator make?

5. Who helped the narrator get his job, and why does he value the job?

6. When describing a sunset, what does the narrator wish he had and what makes him wish he had it?

7. Explain the narrator's statement that there are two types of artists.

8. What does the narrator advise about thinking about life?

9. According to the narrator, what are undreamed dreams?

10. Why does the narrator say that don't people change their lives, even when repulsed by them?

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