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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After rereading some of his writings, what does the narrator think of them?
(a) They are worthless.
(b) They should be published soon.
(c) They are timeless classics.
(d) He has too many grammatical errors.

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

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

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

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

7. How many times has the narrator been in love?
(a) Never.
(b) A dozen or more times.
(c) Once.
(d) Twice.

8. Why doesn't the narrator do any evil deeds?
(a) To not increase the amount of evil in the world.
(b) He can't think of any.
(c) He doesn't get paid to do evil deeds.
(d) It's too time consuming.

9. What does the narrator believe about breaking the laws of grammar?
(a) It's never okay.
(b) They should all be rewritten by him.
(c) There should be no laws.
(d) It's okay sometimes.

10. What is the narrator's day job?
(a) Cashier at a store.
(b) Assistant bookkeeper.
(c) Poet.
(d) Writer of books.

11. What simple change does the narrator says has a liberating affect on one's spirit?
(a) Changing workplace scenery.
(b) Changing a schedule.
(c) Changing jobs.
(d) Changing bed linens.

12. What does the narrator say is necessary to become king of the world?
(a) A large inheritance.
(b) Lots of respect and money.
(c) Good political pull.
(d) An active imagination.

13. What is the subject of the lithograph that the narrator describes?
(a) A mischievious boy.
(b) A sad girl.
(c) A doctor.
(d) An old lady.

14. Who admits to not reading the narrator's writings because he cannot understand them?
(a) The narrator's editor.
(b) The narrator's boss.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) The narrator himself.

15. What does the narrator believe differentiates him from other people?
(a) His active religious life.
(b) His active thinking life.
(c) His active studies of human spirit.
(d) His active social life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the narrator's boss?

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

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

5. What does the narrator believe people do because they are unable to change their own attitudes?

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