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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 184 - 221.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only thing the narrator recognizes as reality?
(a) The love of God.
(b) The unconditional love of his mother.
(c) The unconditional love of his father.
(d) His own sensations.

2. Where does the narrator's train trip take him?
(a) Between Paris and Callais.
(b) Between Lisbon and Cascais.
(c) From Warsaw to Moscow.
(d) From Ireland to Wales.

3. In what condition does the narrator seem to believe that all other people live in daily?
(a) Unconscious stupor.
(b) Unconscious intelligence.
(c) Unconscious sleep.
(d) Unconscious bravery.

4. According to the narrator, what is the result of the disappearance of Christianity?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Hedonism.
(d) Satanism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says he does not need fast automobiles to understand what speed is like. How does he experience speed?

2. Who, along with a particular poet, has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?

3. What makes man long for a father figure to guide him, according to the narrator?

4. Who is the author of The Book of Disquiet?

5. Where does the narrator spend his three-day vacation?

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