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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 382 - 436.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator prefer to write?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Prose.
(c) Haiku.
(d) Scripts for three act plays.

2. What does the narrator say is a disease born from civilization?
(a) Illiteracy.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Romanticism.

3. Why does the narrator's dreaming become painful?
(a) The dreams seem so real to him.
(b) He's sleeping on a bad mattress.
(c) It is drug-induced.
(d) He is suffering from insomnia.

4. How does the narrator think that others see him?
(a) As a romantic writer.
(b) As a freak.
(c) As a very intelligent, sensitve man.
(d) As a stranger or intruder.

5. Why does the narrator say he believes animals are not happy?
(a) Because they have smaller brains.
(b) Because of their keen senses.
(c) Because they do not have a soul.
(d) Because they have no knowledge of happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sight makes the narrator wish he had the "gift of ruthless self-expression?"

2. What does the narrator say is the worst thing that can happen to a writer who has completed a work?

3. According to the narrator, what is developing when a person realizes their greatest area of anxiety is indeed insignificant?

4. What advice does the narrator have for business owners?

5. Which of the narrator's beliefs seems to change daily?

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