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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 suggest may exist in several dimensions including space, the ego, and the ideal?
(a) Reasoning.
(b) Faith.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Humans.

2. If reading is a way to dream, who actually guides that dream?
(a) The reader.
(b) The book publisher.
(c) The library.
(d) The book's author.

3. What is the reason that the people in the narrator's office are forced to turn off the electrical lights at an unusual time?
(a) Hurricane.
(b) Tornado.
(c) Thunderstorm.
(d) Cost.

4. What does the narrator say is the best way to ignore life?
(a) Reading.
(b) Writing.
(c) Watching television.
(d) Dreaming.

5. In what condition does the narrator seem to believe that all other people live in daily?
(a) Unconscious sleep.
(b) Unconscious intelligence.
(c) Unconscious stupor.
(d) Unconscious bravery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in addition to dreams, does the narrator say can substitute life?

2. Who helped the narrator get his job?

3. What poet has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?

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

5. Who admits to not reading the narrator's writings because he cannot understand them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator believe differentiates him from other people? Explain his reasoning.

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

3. Explain the narrator's transformation from his day job to his writing.

4. Which does the narrator prefer to write, poetry or prose, and why?

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

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

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

8. What are the narrator's thoughts regarding travel?

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

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

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