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

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

3. What does the narrator believe about breaking the laws of grammar?
(a) They should all be rewritten by him.
(b) There should be no laws.
(c) It's okay sometimes.
(d) It's never okay.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is a cult not worthy of worship?

2. In Section 76, the narrator envisions an actual machine being built to allow people to have what ability?

3. What, in addition to dreaming, does the narrator say makes up his life?

4. To live each day to its fullest, what does the narrator say one must do?

5. What, according to the narrator, is better than any destination one could travel to see?

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