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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 define as a phenomenon where a person is unaware of a flash of intelligence?
(a) Unconscious brain spark.
(b) Unconscious mind lightening.
(c) Unconscious intelligence.
(d) Unconscious stupor.

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

3. What instrument did a girl who lived above the narrator play when she lived in the building?
(a) French horn.
(b) Harp.
(c) Saxophone.
(d) Piano.

4. Why will all writing be imperfect, according to the narrator?
(a) Because it is all one-sided.
(b) Because all writers are imperfect.
(c) Because he is a pessimist.
(d) Because it is not oral poetry.

5. Who, along with a particular poet, has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?
(a) His inner being.
(b) His coworkers.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The narrator says he sometimes experiences a lapse of something. From what kind of lapse does he suffer?

5. The narrator says humans outwardly worship perfection. What does he say they do secretly?

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