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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 makes man long for a father figure to guide him, according to the narrator?
(a) Lack of religious upbringing.
(b) Human nature.
(c) Necessity.
(d) Weakness.

2. The narrator says he does not need fast automobiles to understand what speed is like. How does he experience speed?
(a) At night.
(b) In his dreams.
(c) In his daily routine.
(d) In his thoughts.

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

4. What does the narrator credit for the idea of romantic love?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Individual faith.
(c) Satan.
(d) Dreaming.

5. In Section 76, the narrator envisions an actual machine being built to allow people to have what ability?
(a) The ability to determine the worth of potential friends.
(b) The ability for self-analysis.
(c) The ability to predict self-fulfillment.
(d) The ability to read thoughts of others.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does being around other people and talking with them make the narrator feel?

2. According to the narrator, what is the result of the disappearance of Christianity?

3. What about the novels he reads makes the narrator cry?

4. The narrator says he belongs to a group that keeps distant from things. What word does he use to describe this distance?

5. What does the narrator expect out of life?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator define unconscious intelligence, and to what does he compare it?

2. How does the narrator compare love to clothing?

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

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

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

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

7. Does the narrator do good or evil deeds?

8. What, according to the narrator, is the best way to ignore life and why?

9. Where does the narrator's train trip take him? Why can't he recall any of the sights from his trip?

10. What is the narrator's opinion of collective thought?

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