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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 437 - 455.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the narrator's poems does he like in the present day?
(a) All.
(b) The ones in his head yet to be written.
(c) None.
(d) The ones he wrote as a child.

3. What does the narrator say a person must do in order to truly love something?
(a) Respect it.
(b) Own it.
(c) Know it.
(d) Fear it.

4. What makes man long for a father figure to guide him, according to the narrator?
(a) Lack of religious upbringing.
(b) Weakness.
(c) Human nature.
(d) Necessity.

5. What advice does the narrator have for business owners?
(a) Leave the labor to the professionals.
(b) Hire a good bookkeeper.
(c) Micro-manage.
(d) Know how to do every aspect of your business.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to the narrator, is more seriously affected by tedium?

2. What characteristic trait does the narrator believe he likes because he holds this characteristic in his own soul?

3. Who is described as being stoic?

4. Why doesn't the narrator do any evil deeds?

5. Who is Omar Khayyám?

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