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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. Who is the narrator of The Book of Disquiet?
(a) Vasquez.
(b) Moerira.
(c) Pessoa.
(d) Soares.
2. What characteristic trait does the narrator believe he likes because he holds this characteristic in his own soul?
(a) Pathetic.
(b) Pettiness.
(c) Pompous.
(d) Pioneering.
3. What, according to the narrator, is better than any destination one could travel to see?
(a) Sleep.
(b) The trip you take in your imagination.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The trip you take to the altar to commit your life to the Lord.
4. What does the narrator believe people do because they are unable to change their own attitudes?
(a) Revolt.
(b) Watch TV.
(c) Marry.
(d) Fall in love.
5. What does the narrator say is a product of dreams, a copy of real life?
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Literature.
(c) Art.
(d) Religion.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the narrator describe his own face in a photo of him and his work associates?
2. According to the narrator, who are the only people who actually think in life?
3. When does the narrator say he feels more like himself?
4. How does being around other people and talking with them make the narrator feel?
5. Which of the narrator's poems does he like in the present day?
Short Essay Questions
1. What advice does the narrator discuss for business managers?
2. When describing a sunset, what does the narrator wish he had and what makes him wish he had it?
3. Why does the narrator say he writes with scenic description interspersed in his writing?
4. How does the narrator compare love to clothing?
5. What is the narrator's opinion of collective thought?
6. What does the narrator say about his imagination as it relates to life?
7. According to the narrator, what are undreamed dreams?
8. Explain the narrator's statement that there are two types of artists.
9. Which does the narrator prefer to write, poetry or prose, and why?
10. Why does the narrator say that don't people change their lives, even when repulsed by them?
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