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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 enjoys being sick?
(a) Valquez.
(b) Soares.
(c) The narrator's mother.
(d) The office boy.
2. To what natural occurrence does the narrator liken his own feelings of tedium?
(a) Snow.
(b) Fog.
(c) Rainbow.
(d) Rain.
3. What ends the narrator's comfort and familiarity at the location he discusses in Section 481?
(a) Learning about the stand being robbled.
(b) Learning that one of the barber's died.
(c) Learning that the harvest season has ended.
(d) Learning that the store would be closing soon.
4. How does the narrator think that others see him?
(a) As a very intelligent, sensitve man.
(b) As a freak.
(c) As a romantic writer.
(d) As a stranger or intruder.
5. What does the narrator say he lacks sufficient money to be?
(a) An intellectual man.
(b) A Christian.
(c) A Godly man.
(d) A real dreamer.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator prepare for a tea party?
2. Whose life is like a ball of tangled yarn?
3. Why does the narrator "remember" things that never even happened to him?
4. Who, according to the narrator, cannot be a dreamer?
5. When did the author complete The Book of Disquiet?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why doesn't the narrator believe that one person can truly love another?
2. What does the narrator like about being sick?
3. When does the narrator say wisdom begins?
4. What does a critic tell Soares about his physical appearance?
5. According to the narrator, what is the only true form of pleasure that exists? Explain his reasoning.
6. Discuss the office boy's travels and the narrator's view of them.
7. 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?
8. Why does the narrator dislike reading the newspaper?
9. What does the narrator say about memories that never occurred?
10. Why does the narrator isolate himself, and how does it affect his sensitivity to worldly things?
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