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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 is the reason that the people in the narrator's office are forced to turn off the electrical lights at an unusual time?
2. What about the novels he reads makes the narrator cry?
3. The narrator says that other people live through their feelings. What does he say that he lives through?
4. What does the narrator say is necessary to become king of the world?
5. What does the narrator say is the best way to ignore life?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator advise about thinking about life?
2. What is the narrator's opinion of collective thought?
3. What does the narrator say his job and his rented room represent?
4. Why does the narrator say he anticipates upcoming events in life?
5. Which does the narrator prefer to write, poetry or prose, and why?
6. What correlation between Christianity and romanticism does the narrator make?
7. Where does the narrator believe that dreams may exist?
8. What does the narrator notice about a bad lithograph? What does he compare it to and why?
9. Where does the narrator's train trip take him? Why can't he recall any of the sights from his trip?
10. Does the narrator do good or evil deeds?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is personification? Discuss and analyze one example of personification from The Book of Disquiet.
Essay Topic 2
There are four common points of view in which literature is written: first person, third person objective, third person limited, and third person omniscient. Which point of view does the author use in this book? Is this the most effective point of view for this story? Could this story have been told from a different point of view and still been in the same genre?
Essay Topic 3
Define "fact," "theory," and "opinion." Explain why it is important to differentiate among the terms when reading nonfiction. Relate each term to a specific example in The Book of Disquiet.
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