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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Abstracts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator call decorative creatures?
(a) Children.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) Elderly.

2. If reading is a way to dream, who actually guides that dream?
(a) The reader.
(b) The book publisher.
(c) The library.
(d) The book's author.

3. How does the narrator multi-task?
(a) By being practical in his art.
(b) By sleeping while he works.
(c) By writing while he works.
(d) By dreaming while he works.

4. What does the narrator say is the only true form of pleasure that exists?
(a) Art.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Reading.
(d) Sleeping.

5. What does the narrator say is the only thing worth doing?
(a) Living.
(b) Seeing.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the play that the narrator discusses as terribly flawed?

2. What job position -- if it existed -- does the narrator say he would be perfect to fill?

3. What about the novels he reads makes the narrator cry?

4. Who hates to read the newspaper?

5. What does the narrator say man is not intended to see without the help of nature only?

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