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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. Which of the narrator's poems does he like in the present day?
(a) The ones in his head yet to be written.
(b) All.
(c) The ones he wrote as a child.
(d) None.

2. What does the narrator believe differentiates him from other people?
(a) His active religious life.
(b) His active studies of human spirit.
(c) His active thinking life.
(d) His active social life.

3. What does the narrator believe people should groom the same way they groom their bodies?
(a) Their finances.
(b) Their destiny.
(c) Their children.
(d) Their religious faith.

4. What does the narrator believe causes him to want things, only to show him that he cannot have them?
(a) Fate.
(b) Faith.
(c) Destiny.
(d) Cruelty.

5. What source does the author use frequently for the imagery of his descriptions and definitions?
(a) The dictionary.
(b) Religious terminology.
(c) Literary terms.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in addition to dreaming, does the narrator say makes up his life?

2. What does the narrator fancy himself to be?

3. Why does the narrator say poetry should be written by children?

4. What, according to the narrator, is better than any destination one could travel to see?

5. What is the narrator doing any time he is not interacting with people?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the narrator believe that dreams may exist?

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

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

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

5. How does the narrator compare love to clothing?

6. Why does the narrator say he writes with scenic description interspersed in his writing?

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

8. Why does the narrator say he anticipates upcoming events in life?

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

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

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