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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. Where are the objects of nature located that the narrator discusses when he describes Spring?
(a) The city.
(b) The country.
(c) The suburbs.
(d) England.

2. Why will all writing be imperfect, according to the narrator?
(a) Because he is a pessimist.
(b) Because it is not oral poetry.
(c) Because all writers are imperfect.
(d) Because it is all one-sided.

3. In which point of view is the book written?
(a) First person.
(b) Third person limited.
(c) Second person.
(d) Third person omniscient.

4. Who enjoys being sick?
(a) Soares.
(b) The office boy.
(c) The narrator's mother.
(d) Valquez.

5. Who, according to the narrator, does not realize the difference between the people of the middle class and those of other classes?
(a) Business owners.
(b) Managers.
(c) Revolutionaries.
(d) Religious leaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person who enjoys being sick like about having fever?

2. Why does the narrator "remember" things that never even happened to him?

3. In what year was The Book of Disquiet first published?

4. To what natural occurrence does the narrator liken his own feelings of tedium?

5. What kind of feeling does the narrator say that tedium creates?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator isolate himself, and how does it affect his sensitivity to worldly things?

2. Discuss the narrator's initial feelings in a barber shop and why they changed.

3. What does the narrator say about memories that never occurred?

4. Discuss the narrator's conflicting thoughts and statements about his wife.

5. Discuss the office boy's travels and the narrator's view of them.

6. According to the narrator, what is the only true form of pleasure that exists? Explain his reasoning.

7. Define heteronym and who created the concept?

8. What does the narrator credit mirrors and wardrobes for doing?

9. What does the narrator say about animal happiness? What is is reasoning?

10. Why doesn't the narrator believe that one person can truly love another?

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