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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Section 76, the narrator envisions an actual machine being built to allow people to have what ability?
(a) The ability to determine the worth of potential friends.
(b) The ability to predict self-fulfillment.
(c) The ability to read thoughts of others.
(d) The ability for self-analysis.

2. Who helped the narrator get his job?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His mother.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His father.

3. What does the narrator believe people do because they are unable to change their own attitudes?
(a) Revolt.
(b) Marry.
(c) Fall in love.
(d) Watch TV.

4. What does the narrator define as a phenomenon where a person is unaware of a flash of intelligence?
(a) Unconscious mind lightening.
(b) Unconscious intelligence.
(c) Unconscious brain spark.
(d) Unconscious stupor.

5. According to the narrator, what do people realize as Christianity begins to disappear?
(a) That there is no eternity after all.
(b) That they are lost and need to be saved.
(c) How much more they need.
(d) How much damage it has done.

6. What does the narrator say is the worst thing that can happen to a writer who has completed a work?
(a) He realizes he has plagarized.
(b) He realizes it is not true.
(c) He realizes it hurts someone's feelings.
(d) He realizes it's no good.

7. What is the narrator doing any time he is not interacting with people?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Painting.

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

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

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

11. Who does the narrator visit in the country?
(a) A cousin.
(b) A friend.
(c) An aunt.
(d) His mother.

12. What, in addition to dreaming, does the narrator say makes up his life?
(a) Action.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Crying.
(d) Drinking.

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

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

15. 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) Thunderstorm.
(b) Hurricane.
(c) Cost.
(d) Tornado.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what kind of man can keep outside influences from changing him?

2. What complaint does the narrator make about the Tagus River in Section 79?

3. How does the narrator describe his own face in a photo of him and his work associates?

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

5. What poet has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?

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