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

2. From which mode does the narrator usually experience things?
(a) Religious.
(b) Practical.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Sensory.

3. What does the narrator say will contain little intelligence and much stupidity?
(a) Any idea born by a group of people.
(b) Any idea based on religion rather than intellect.
(c) Any idea born in his workplace.
(d) Any idea he offers.

4. What characteristic trait does the narrator believe he likes because he holds this characteristic in his own soul?
(a) Pathetic.
(b) Pioneering.
(c) Pompous.
(d) Pettiness.

5. Who admits to not reading the narrator's writings because he cannot understand them?
(a) The narrator himself.
(b) The narrator's boss.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) The narrator's editor.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator believe he is truly able to be himself?

2. How does rain make the narrator feel?

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

4. According to the narrator, who are the only people who actually think in life?

5. How many times has the narrator been in love?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say his job and his rented room represent?

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

3. What does the narrator say about his imagination as it relates to life?

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

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

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

7. What comparison between humans and animals does the narrator make? What is the exception that he notes in his comparison?

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

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

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

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