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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 complaint does the narrator make about the Tagus River in Section 79?
(a) It has a bad smell.
(b) It's natural beauty has been destroyed.
(c) It is too narrow.
(d) People have turned it into recreation.

2. What does the narrator fancy himself to be?
(a) A painter.
(b) An actor.
(c) A writer.
(d) An infant.

3. According to the narrator, who are the only people who actually think in life?
(a) Psychologists and psychiatrists.
(b) Mystics and ascetics.
(c) Monks and nuns.
(d) Poets.

4. How many types of artists does the narrator say there are?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. What, in addition to dreams, does the narrator say can substitute life?
(a) Movies.
(b) Entertaining.
(c) Art.
(d) Music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator prefer to write?

2. What does the narrator say is best if one simply doesn't think about it?

3. If reading is a way to dream, who actually guides that dream?

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

5. What does the narrator believe about breaking the laws of grammar?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator notice about a bad lithograph? What does he compare it to and why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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