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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator credit for the idea of romantic love?

2. What does the narrator prefer to write?

3. How does being around other people and talking with them make the narrator feel?

4. Where does the narrator's train trip take him?

5. Which people does the narrator describe as stupid, insensitive, and uptight?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain the narrator's transformation from his day job to his writing.

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

4. What does it take, according to the narrator, for people to be acceptable the world's standards?

5. How does the narrator compare love to clothing?

6. What does the narrator advise about thinking about life?

7. When describing a sunset, what does the narrator wish he had and what makes him wish he had it?

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

9. What does the narrator say about his imagination as it relates to life?

10. What are the narrator's thoughts regarding travel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Omar Khayyam and what is his relevance to this book?

Essay Topic 2

What is didacticism? Explain whether or not the author uses this convention in The Book of Disquiet. Explain the subject of the didacticism.

Essay Topic 3

What is a simile? Discuss and analyze one example of a simile from The Book of Disquiet.

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