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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 261 - 301.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many times has the narrator been in love?
(a) Once.
(b) Never.
(c) A dozen or more times.
(d) Twice.

3. Who wrote the play that the narrator discusses as terribly flawed?
(a) Williams.
(b) Ford.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Shakespeare.

4. What, according to the narrator, is better than any destination one could travel to see?
(a) The trip you take to the altar to commit your life to the Lord.
(b) Sleep.
(c) The trip you take in your imagination.
(d) Nothing.

5. Who admits to not reading the narrator's writings because he cannot understand them?
(a) The narrator himself.
(b) The narrator's boss.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) The narrator's editor.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, who are the only people who actually think in life?

2. What does the narrator define as a phenomenon where a person is unaware of a flash of intelligence?

3. Why is the narrator sad to see the office boy quit?

4. Who helped the narrator get his job?

5. Which of the narrator's poems does he like in the present day?

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