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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. Howie considers ___________ might buy classic paperbacks like him.

2. What does Howie imagine the women doing in the corporate bathroom?

3. Who enters the bathroom, causing Howie to have urination issues?

4. Howie discovers that the authors Lecky, Boswell and Gibbon loved ___________

5. How many hand towels does Howie use to wash his face in the men's room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Howie see in the bathroom engaging in what he considers to be poor bathroom etiquette?

2. In what way does Howie consider life to be like footnotes?

3. What does Howie notice about tunes whistled in the men's room?

4. How can Howie reach a majority of adult thoughts?

5. What realization about his broken shoelace does Howie come to while washing his face in the men's bathroom?

6. What is one of Howie's favorite games to play on the escalator?

7. What are Howie's reflections on the overall safety of escalators?

8. What does Abe jokingly claim to Howie while they talk in the men's room?

9. Howie does Howie think his corporation flaunts their status?

10. What attracted Howie to the Aurelius book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What profound insight does Howie achieve through his stream of consciousness while riding the subway? Could he have had this same insight without the constant stream of trivial thoughts? Is his realization truly profound, transcending the triviality of his mundane thoughts?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the paradox of Howie the man-child and the greater truth that existed within that ambiguity.

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the trivialities, interconnections with other people and thoughts outside of its main subject, tangents, abrupt thoughts that must not be lost and so on that the author illustrates in the footnotes? What greater truth is contained in these?

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