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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 expect out of life?

2. What does the narrator's only sense of peace comes from reading?

3. What further sickens the narrator about the common human beings?

4. From which mode does the narrator usually experience things?

5. Who does the narrator visit in the country?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What advice does the narrator discuss for business managers?

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

7. What does the narrator notice about a bad lithograph? What does he compare it to and why?

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

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

10. Does the narrator do good or evil deeds?

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

There are four common points of view in which literature is written: first person, third person objective, third person limited, and third person omniscient. Which point of view does the author use in this book? Is this the most effective point of view for this story? Could this story have been told from a different point of view and still been in the same genre?

Essay Topic 3

Define "theme" in literature and analyze and discuss one theme from The Book of Disquiet.

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