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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 described as being stoic?
(a) Valquez.
(b) The narrator's brother.
(c) The office boy.
(d) Soares.
2. What is the writing style in which the writing seems to mimic the author's random thoughts?
(a) FIrst person.
(b) Omniscient.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Stream of consciousness.
3. What does the narrator say he has inside him despite the appearance of being outwardly calm?
(a) Joy in his soul.
(b) Anger in his crushed soul.
(c) Heaven and hell.
(d) A crushed spirit.
4. Who does the narrator call decorative creatures?
(a) Children.
(b) Men.
(c) Elderly.
(d) Women.
5. Who is Omar Khayyám?
(a) A fortune teller.
(b) A religious leader.
(c) A king.
(d) A sage.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which season does the narrator generally discuss?
2. Why does the narrator contend that a person cannot truly love another person?
3. In what year was The Book of Disquiet first published?
4. Whose life is like a ball of tangled yarn?
5. What inventions does the narrator say are due to the evolution of man into a clothed creature?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator begin to view writing after the critic advises him about his physical appearance?
2. What kinds of memories does the narrator have and why does he like to remember them?
3. Why doesn't the narrator believe that one person can truly love another?
4. Of the five senses, which does the narrator say is the most important?
5. What does the narrator say about intelligent and sensitive people? Since they can't be banned to an island, what should they do and why?
6. Define heteronym and who created the concept?
7. What does the narrator say about tedium?
8. Discuss the narrator's initial feelings in a barber shop and why they changed.
9. Discuss the disease with which the narrator claims to be afflicted. What does this disease attack? Who does the narrator say is more seriously affected by it?
10. What does the narrator say about animal happiness? What is is reasoning?
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