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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator believe causes him to want things, only to show him that he cannot have them?
(a) Cruelty.
(b) Faith.
(c) Destiny.
(d) Fate.

2. What poet has helped the narrator perfect his vision of the world?
(a) Frost.
(b) Verde.
(c) Longfellow.
(d) Pope.

3. 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.

4. What does the narrator's only sense of peace comes from reading?
(a) The Old Testament.
(b) The works of the Classical writers.
(c) Psalms and Proverbs specifically.
(d) The New Testament.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that other people live through their feelings. What does he say that he lives through?

2. What advice does the narrator have for business owners?

3. What does the narrator say that people who must experience things directly lack?

4. Why doesn't the narrator do any evil deeds?

5. Who is the narrator of The Book of Disquiet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does the narrator do good or evil deeds?

2. What advice does the narrator discuss for business managers?

3. What does the narrator notice about a bad lithograph? What does he compare it to and why?

4. Where does the narrator believe that dreams may exist?

5. How does the narrator define unconscious intelligence, and to what does he compare it?

6. What does the narrator advise about thinking about life?

7. What does it take, according to the narrator, for people to be acceptable the world's standards?

8. Why does the narrator say he writes with scenic description interspersed in his writing?

9. What does the narrator believe differentiates him from other people? Explain his reasoning.

10. Why does the narrator say that don't people change their lives, even when repulsed by them?

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