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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 is the only thing that a man ever completely owns, according to the narrator?
(a) Prayers.
(b) Love.
(c) Faith.
(d) Dreams.

2. What kinds of things tend to hurt the narrator easily, according to him?
(a) Criticism from his boss.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Comments made by the office boy.
(d) Small things.

3. What term does the narrator use to define a period of time in which he is unable to write as much as he is accustomed to writing?
(a) Writer's block.
(b) Tedium.
(c) Stagnation.
(d) Writer's remorse.

4. What objects of nature does the narrator discuss when he describes Spring?
(a) Rainbows.
(b) Trees.
(c) The moon and sun.
(d) Flowers.

5. What is a heteronym?
(a) A term that refers to the sexuality of a writer.
(b) A different persona of a writer.
(c) The opposite of an antonym.
(d) Both an antonym and a pseudonym.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator begin to think of writing as unappealing?

2. Why does the narrator say he chooses to think about all his unhappy memories?

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

4. What does the narrator say he has inside him despite the appearance of being outwardly calm?

5. How does the office boy travel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator like to view Springtime?

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

3. 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?

4. What does the narrator like about being sick?

5. How does the narrator begin to view writing after the critic advises him about his physical appearance?

6. What are the narrator's conflicting views regarding God?

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

8. What perception does the narrator believe readers will have of him after reading the book? Why is the anticipated perception not true, according to the narrator?

9. Define heteronym and who created the concept?

10. Of the five senses, which does the narrator say is the most important?

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