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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. According to the narrator, what kind of man can keep outside influences from changing him?

3. What simple change does the narrator says has a liberating affect on one's spirit?

4. What does the narrator believe people do because they are unable to change their own attitudes?

5. What, in addition to dreaming, does the narrator say makes up his life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator's opinion of collective thought?

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

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

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

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

6. Why does the narrator say that don't people change their lives, even when repulsed by them?

7. What does the narrator say his job and his rented room represent?

8. Why does the narrator say he writes with scenic description interspersed in his writing?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define autobiography and explain why this book is considered to be one.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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