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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the writer say would not understand the feelings of men about their decisions?
(a) Those who have never been slapped.
(b) The weak and weary.
(c) Men of action.
(d) The strong willed.

2. What does the writer state is man's ultimate shortcoming?
(a) Abillity to love others.
(b) Continual impropriety.
(c) Ungratefullness.
(d) Will.

3. What does the writer compare a man to when he is consumed with revenge?
(a) A wall.
(b) A maddened bull.
(c) A monster.
(d) An insect.

4. What would happen to a man who tries to assert himself?
(a) He would succeed.
(b) He would die.
(c) He would go mad.
(d) He would understand reason.

5. What does the writer compare his writings to?
(a) The man faced with the wall.
(b) The Waganheims.
(c) The moan of a man with a toothache.
(d) The mouse.

6. During Part 1, Chapter 6, the writer discusses what he would have done if he had a career. What is it that the writer would have liked to do?
(a) Live honorably.
(b) Rid the world of distastful things.
(c) Be a drunkard.
(d) Make everything beautiful.

7. What would a content man do to rebel against the laws of nature?
(a) Create chaos.
(b) Defy the laws.
(c) Yield to the laws.
(d) Seek vengeance against the laws.

8. What does the writer suggest he would be able to do, if scientists found the formula for life?
(a) Go back in time.
(b) Caculate the next 30 years.
(c) Understand human nature.
(d) Find happiness.

9. What type of person does the writer think could not desire something that is to his disadvantage?
(a) Uneducated.
(b) Man of action.
(c) Educated.
(d) The gentleman.

10. In Part I, Chapter 1, what does the writer say about himself?
(a) He is a person of great wealth.
(b) He is a real person.
(c) He is fictional.
(d) He is a highly educated person.

11. The writer discusses a pleasure that comes from his illness. From where does the pleasure stem?
(a) Joy.
(b) Humiliation.
(c) Shame.
(d) Pride.

12. How does the writer say men feel about their decisions a minute after making them?
(a) They regret them.
(b) They forget them.
(c) They are pleased.
(d) They are disappointed.

13. How does the writer describe the groans of a toothache?
(a) Unbearable.
(b) Pleasurable .
(c) Malice.
(d) Candid.

14. After describing a man of action, the writer notes what how a man of action feels about himself. According to the writer, what does a man of action feel himself to be?
(a) A model citizen.
(b) A mouse.
(c) An outsider.
(d) A lion.

15. What does the writer state is a privilege of man that no other animal has?
(a) The ability to swear.
(b) Revenge.
(c) The ability to defy laws of nature.
(d) The ability to do good deeds.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the writer feel his life would be if he lived as a man of action?

2. As Dostoevsky develops the writer, what does the reader learn about his physical condition?

3. What does the writer say all men must accept?

4. What does the writer think a man of action does when faced with a wall?

5. What does the writer say is the result of consciousness?

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