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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 define as a phenomenon where a person is unaware of a flash of intelligence?
(a) Unconscious mind lightening.
(b) Unconscious brain spark.
(c) Unconscious intelligence.
(d) Unconscious stupor.

2. What does the narrator say that people who must experience things directly lack?
(a) Faith.
(b) Religion.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Money.

3. According to the narrator, what is a cult not worthy of worship?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Hindu.

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

5. Which people does the narrator describe as stupid, insensitive, and uptight?
(a) Religious fanatics.
(b) Those acceptable by the world's standards.
(c) Just his family.
(d) White collar managment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is a product of dreams, a copy of real life?

2. At what unusual time are the people in the narrator's office forced to turn off the electrical lights?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the narrator's statement that there are two types of artists.

2. What does the narrator say his job and his rented room represent?

3. Explain the narrator's transformation from his day job to his writing.

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

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

6. Why does the narrator say he anticipates upcoming events in life?

7. What does the narrator say about his imagination as it relates to life?

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

9. Which does the narrator prefer to write, poetry or prose, and why?

10. Does the narrator do good or evil deeds?

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