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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. Which of the narrator's poems does he like in the present day?

2. Who admits to not reading the narrator's writings because he cannot understand them?

3. What does sunrise in the city make the narrator do?

4. According to the narrator, what is the result of the disappearance of Christianity?

5. How does rain make the narrator feel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator compare love to clothing?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define the term "anecdote." Select one anecdote from the book and explain its importance to the book.

Essay Topic 2

Define prose and poetry, and then compare the two.

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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