The Book of Disquiet Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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The Book of Disquiet Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 people do because they are unable to change their own attitudes?
(a) Marry.
(b) Revolt.
(c) Watch TV.
(d) Fall in love.

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

3. The narrator says that other people live through their feelings. What does he say that he lives through?
(a) His thoughts.
(b) His faith.
(c) His spirituality.
(d) His religion.

4. What is the reason that the people in the narrator's office are forced to turn off the electrical lights at an unusual time?
(a) Hurricane.
(b) Tornado.
(c) Thunderstorm.
(d) Cost.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the narrator, is better than any destination one could travel to see?

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

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

4. According to the narrator, what is a cult not worthy of worship?

5. What is the real purpose of literature, according to the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are the narrator's thoughts regarding travel?

6. Where does the narrator's train trip take him? Why can't he recall any of the sights from his trip?

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

8. How does the narrator compare love to clothing?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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