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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 109 - 150.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To live each day to its fullest, what does the narrator say one must do?
(a) Forget the previous day.
(b) Do one good deed more than the previous day.
(c) Recall the previous day.
(d) Pick up where the previous day left off.

3. What is the narrator doing any time he is not interacting with people?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Painting.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Dreaming.

4. What does the narrator believe people should groom the same way they groom their bodies?
(a) Their children.
(b) Their religious faith.
(c) Their destiny.
(d) Their finances.

5. How does the narrator describe his own face in a photo of him and his work associates?
(a) Bland and lacking interest.
(b) Aging and lacking potential promotion.
(c) Bright and friendly.
(d) Lifeless and lacking in intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator fancy himself to be?

2. Who is the narrator of The Book of Disquiet?

3. What is the narrator's day job?

4. According to the narrator, what do people realize as Christianity begins to disappear?

5. What is the subject of the lithograph that the narrator describes?

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