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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 does the narrator suggest may exist in several dimensions including space, the ego, and the ideal?
(a) Reasoning.
(b) Faith.
(c) Humans.
(d) Dreams.

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

3. What does autumn remind the narrator?
(a) That winter is on its way.
(b) That Halloween is near.
(c) That all things eventually die.
(d) That summer is finally ending.

4. What does the narrator say is an offensive form of human stupidity?
(a) Divorce.
(b) Violence.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Religion.

5. What is the reason that the people in the narrator's office are forced to turn off the electrical lights at an unusual time?
(a) Tornado.
(b) Thunderstorm.
(c) Cost.
(d) Hurricane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What further sickens the narrator about the common human beings?

2. What does the narrator say is best if one simply doesn't think about it?

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

4. What does the narrator say that people who must experience things directly lack?

5. What does the narrator believe about breaking the laws of grammar?

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