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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. When does the narrator believe he is truly able to be himself?
(a) On stage.
(b) In church.
(c) At night.
(d) At the office.

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

3. 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.

4. What makes man long for a father figure to guide him, according to the narrator?
(a) Necessity.
(b) Human nature.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Lack of religious upbringing.

5. What, in addition to dreams, does the narrator say can substitute life?
(a) Music.
(b) Art.
(c) Entertaining.
(d) Movies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator define as a phenomenon where a person is unaware of a flash of intelligence?

2. What, in addition to dreaming, does the narrator say makes up his life?

3. From which mode does the narrator usually experience things?

4. What does the narrator believe people should groom the same way they groom their bodies?

5. If reading is a way to dream, who actually guides that dream?

Short Essay Questions

1. When describing a sunset, what does the narrator wish he had and what makes him wish he had it?

2. What does the narrator say about the difference in sunrises between the city and country?

3. What comparison between humans and animals does the narrator make? What is the exception that he notes in his comparison?

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

5. What is the narrator's opinion of collective thought?

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

7. Who helped the narrator get his job, and why does he value the job?

8. What, according to the narrator, is the best way to ignore life and why?

9. Explain the narrator's comparison of his dreams and thoughts to a garden.

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

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