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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What remained constant about the scales the girl played on her instrument when she lived above the narrator?
(a) She always got them wrong.
(b) The pitch.
(c) She played at the same time every day.
(d) The monotonous rhythm.

2. Who does the narrator say should hope for a way to retire and not have to think about life?
(a) Upper class men.
(b) All men.
(c) Intelligent men.
(d) Poor men.

3. According to the narrator, what is developing when a person realizes their greatest area of anxiety is indeed insignificant?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Love.
(c) Faith.
(d) Responsibility.

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

5. What does tedium seem to attack, according to the narrator?
(a) Body.
(b) Heart.
(c) Mind.
(d) Soul.

6. What is the only thing that a man ever completely owns, according to the narrator?
(a) Prayers.
(b) Faith.
(c) Love.
(d) Dreams.

7. What does the narrator say he lacks sufficient money to be?
(a) A Godly man.
(b) An intellectual man.
(c) A Christian.
(d) A real dreamer.

8. What does the narrator say he would be happy to do without having to live?
(a) Write.
(b) Breath.
(c) Read.
(d) See.

9. What lie does the narrator tell a clerk about his feelings about being alone?
(a) He is not allowed to be left alone.
(b) He loves to be alone.
(c) He doesn't like to be alone.
(d) He is never alone.

10. Why does the narrator say he believes animals are not happy?
(a) Because they do not have a soul.
(b) Because they have smaller brains.
(c) Because of their keen senses.
(d) Because they have no knowledge of happiness.

11. Which of the narrator's beliefs seems to change daily?
(a) Belief in art.
(b) Belief in humanity.
(c) Belief in his own writing skill.
(d) Belief in God.

12. According to a critic, what does the narrator need in order to become a charming person?
(a) Better looks.
(b) A better personality.
(c) Deeper thoughts.
(d) Better writing skills.

13. What is the writing style in which the writing seems to mimic the author's random thoughts?
(a) Omniscient.
(b) FIrst person.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Stream of consciousness.

14. What term does the narrator use to define a period of time in which he is unable to write as much as he is accustomed to writing?
(a) Tedium.
(b) Writer's block.
(c) Writer's remorse.
(d) Stagnation.

15. Who, according to the narrator, is more seriously affected by tedium?
(a) People who work.
(b) People who are religious.
(c) People who don't work.
(d) People who are not religtious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the only true form of pleasure that exists?

2. Why does the narrator "remember" things that never even happened to him?

3. Who, according to the author, is a prime example of the saying "ignorance is bliss?"

4. What ends the narrator's comfort and familiarity at the location he discusses in Section 481?

5. According to the narrator, what do all intelligent men believe about God?

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