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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's only sense of peace comes from reading?

2. How does being around other people and talking with them make the narrator feel?

3. What does autumn remind the narrator?

4. What does the narrator say will contain little intelligence and much stupidity?

5. What does the narrator believe about breaking the laws of grammar?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Does the narrator do good or evil deeds?

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

7. What correlation between Christianity and romanticism does the narrator make?

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

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

10. How does the narrator compare love to clothing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is stream of consciousness writing? Discuss what you learned about Soares through this particular type of writing style.

Essay Topic 2

Who is Omar Khayyam and what is his relevance to this book?

Essay Topic 3

Define the term "sequence" as it applies to nonfiction books. Discuss the sequence of The Book of Disquiet.

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