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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 say allows poison to enter the human heart?

2. How does the office boy travel?

3. In Section 481, what is the location of comfort and familiarity that the narrator is experiencing?

4. Who wrote the play that the narrator discusses as terribly flawed?

5. What does the person who enjoys being sick like about having fever?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say about intelligent and sensitive people? Since they can't be banned to an island, what should they do and why?

2. Discuss the narrator's conflicting thoughts and statements about his wife.

3. Why does the narrator isolate himself, and how does it affect his sensitivity to worldly things?

4. Why are smells important to the narrator?

5. How does the narrator like to view Springtime?

6. Discuss the disease with which the narrator claims to be afflicted. What does this disease attack? Who does the narrator say is more seriously affected by it?

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

8. What is the gift of the common folk, according to the narrator?

9. Discuss the office boy's travels and the narrator's view of them.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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