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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 characteristic trait does the narrator believe he likes because he holds this characteristic in his own soul?
(a) Pioneering.
(b) Pompous.
(c) Pettiness.
(d) Pathetic.

2. According to the narrator, what is it that people really love of other people?
(a) The spirit of other people.
(b) Their concept of other people.
(c) The bodies of other people.
(d) The lustitude of other people.

3. What does the narrator credit for the idea of romantic love?
(a) Satan.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Individual faith.

4. What is the real purpose of literature, according to the narrator?
(a) To inform.
(b) To entertain the masses.
(c) To entertain the highly educated elite.
(d) To give the writer a creative outlet.

5. Which of the narrator's poems does he like in the present day?
(a) The ones in his head yet to be written.
(b) The ones he wrote as a child.
(c) All.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the best way to ignore life?

2. Why does the narrator's dreaming become painful?

3. What is the narrator doing any time he is not interacting with people?

4. To what natural occurrence does the narrator liken his own feelings of tedium?

5. Why does the narrator say poetry should be written by children?

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