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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 the office boy travel?

2. According to the narrator, what do all intelligent men believe about God?

3. Why does the narrator contend that a person cannot truly love another person?

4. Who, according to the narrator, cannot be a dreamer?

5. When did the author complete The Book of Disquiet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't the narrator believe that one person can truly love another?

2. Why does the narrator say mirrors are a negative invention?

3. What does the narrator credit mirrors and wardrobes for doing?

4. According to the narrator, what is the only true form of pleasure that exists? Explain his reasoning.

5. According to the narrator, how does one become a man of action? What role do men of action play in society and why?

6. When does the narrator say wisdom begins?

7. How does the narrator begin to view writing after the critic advises him about his physical appearance?

8. Why does the narrator say he never puts forth much effort into various aspects of his life?

9. What does a critic tell Soares about his physical appearance?

10. Why are smells important to the narrator?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the scope of a work of nonfiction. What is the scope of The Book of Disquiet?

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