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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 believe people do because they are unable to change their own attitudes?

2. What is the narrator doing any time he is not interacting with people?

3. How many times has the narrator been in love?

4. Where does the narrator spend his three-day vacation?

5. According to the narrator, what do people realize as Christianity begins to disappear?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does the narrator compare love to clothing?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define symbolism. Discuss and analyze one example of symbolism from The Book of Disquiet.

Essay Topic 2

A main character in a work of fiction has both good and bad qualities, giving the character dimension. In nonfiction, the main character is known as the subject. Soares is the subject of his own book. What are Soares good qualities? What are his bad qualities?

Essay Topic 3

Define prose and poetry, and then compare the two.

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