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

2. Why doesn't the narrator do any evil deeds?

3. Who does the narrator visit in the country?

4. What is the reason that the people in the narrator's office are forced to turn off the electrical lights at an unusual time?

5. Who admits to not reading the narrator's writings because he cannot understand them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator define unconscious intelligence, and to what does he compare it?

3. Explain the narrator's comparison of his dreams and thoughts to a garden.

4. Which does the narrator prefer to write, poetry or prose, and why?

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

6. Who helped the narrator get his job, and why does he value the job?

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

8. What comparison between humans and animals does the narrator make? What is the exception that he notes in his comparison?

9. Why does the narrator say he anticipates upcoming events in life?

10. According to the narrator, what are undreamed dreams?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the life of Fernando Pessoa. What contribution did he make to literature and how is that contribution relevant to The Book of Disquiet?

Essay Topic 2

Define prose and poetry, and then compare the two.

Essay Topic 3

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

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