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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said "the nature of things is in habit of concealing itself."?
(a) Hussey.
(b) Heraclitus.
(c) Hercules.
(d) Hegel.

2. What does the author say caused Horselover Fat to slip by degrees into madness?
(a) Too many drugs.
(b) Gloria's death.
(c) Thinking about madness.
(d) Society pressures.

3. What did Fat like to call God's message?
(a) Prosiac.
(b) Patter.
(c) The formula.
(d) Logos.

4. Why do the psychologists want to hold Fat for fourteen days?
(a) He is too weak to walk.
(b) His friends are all on holiday.
(c) He has nowhere to go.
(d) He is a danger to himself.

5. What reason does Horse Lover Fat give Gloria for not killing herself?
(a) It would have a bad effect on him.
(b) She has so much to look forward to.
(c) She doesn't believe there is a heaven.
(d) Life gets better.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of therapy does Bob say is practiced at Synanon?

2. What does exegesis mean?

3. What game does Penny say Fat should play?

4. In which part of America does the author say there isn't a sane person left?

5. Which character does Horselover Fat call a schizoid?

(see the answer key)

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