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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of people make up the narrator's life?
(a) Poor.
(b) Common.
(c) Eccentric.
(d) Rich.

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

3. What does the narrator say about the office boy's travels?
(a) Says he is well-travelled in his soul.
(b) Says he wishes the boy would travel somewhere and not come back.
(c) Says he is unimpressed.
(d) Says he is a bother every Monday morning, talking about his weekend trips.

4. Who hates to read the newspaper?
(a) The office boy.
(b) The narrator's mother.
(c) Soares.
(d) Vasquez.

5. What does the narrator say he has inside him despite the appearance of being outwardly calm?
(a) Joy in his soul.
(b) A crushed spirit.
(c) Heaven and hell.
(d) Anger in his crushed soul.

6. Who does the narrator say should be banned to an island?
(a) All rich people.
(b) All poor people.
(c) All intelligent people.
(d) All stupid people.

7. Whose life is like a ball of tangled yarn?
(a) Intelligent people's.
(b) Soares's.
(c) Religious group members.
(d) Common people's.

8. The narrator says humans outwardly worship perfection. What does he say they do secretly?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Hate it.
(c) Covet it.
(d) Conspire to achieve it.

9. In what year does the author die?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1935.

10. What kinds of things tend to hurt the narrator easily, according to him?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Comments made by the office boy.
(c) Criticism from his boss.
(d) Small things.

11. In Section 463, what does the narrator say that Satan attempts to tempt Christ with?
(a) The things of the world.
(b) Satan's own kingdom.
(c) A harem.
(d) Fruit.

12. What smell brings back memories of the narrator's childhood?
(a) Cotton Candy.
(b) Smoked ham.
(c) Cigarette smoke.
(d) Candy apples.

13. Even though most people make him sick, why does the narrator still love fellow man?
(a) For the respect they show him.
(b) Out of the kindness of his own heart.
(c) For their ability to be happy.
(d) For the fact that he isn't like them.

14. What job position -- if it existed -- does the narrator say he would be perfect to fill?
(a) Improver for art.
(b) Royal writer of words.
(c) Arbiter of elegance.
(d) Examiner of grammar.

15. Which season does the narrator generally discuss?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator call decorative creatures?

2. What characteristic does the narrator hope his wife will have?

3. What does the narrator say he would be happy to do without having to live?

4. From what area does Omar Khayyám hail?

5. Why is the narrator sad to see the office boy quit?

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