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

2. What does sunrise in the city make the narrator do?
(a) Think.
(b) Live.
(c) Awaken.
(d) Sleep.

3. What about the novels he reads makes the narrator cry?
(a) He cannot change the characters to his own way of thinking.
(b) He can't meet the characters in reality.
(c) Novels that are more than 500 pages.
(d) The characters all seem so happy.

4. The narrator says that other people live through their feelings. What does he say that he lives through?
(a) His faith.
(b) His thoughts.
(c) His religion.
(d) His spirituality.

5. According to the narrator, what is it that people really love of other people?
(a) Their concept of other people.
(b) The bodies of other people.
(c) The spirit of other people.
(d) The lustitude of other people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What source does the author use frequently for the imagery of his descriptions and definitions?

2. Which of the narrator's poems does he like in the present day?

3. What does the narrator believe differentiates him from other people?

4. What does autumn remind the narrator?

5. When does the narrator say he feels more like himself?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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