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Multiple Choice Quiz #3: The Drunk explores themes of distraction and artistic expression through critical analysis of a literary passage. It assesses understanding of irony, inference, and textual interpretation, enhancing...

Questions: 12 | Attempts: 210 | Last updated: Mar 18, 2025

Sample Question 1
The speaker in the passage can best be described as a person who

Is committed to developing his skills as a writer

Is actually more interested in being a musician than in being a writer

Has talent as both a musician and a writer

Is motivated very differently from the jazz musicians that he describes

Aspires to greatness but knows that he will never achieve it

Sample Question 2
That the speaker "sympathized with" the drunk's "obsession" (lines 16-17) is ironic chiefly because the drunk

Agitated the speaker purposely and distracted him from his writing

Was not "poetic" (line 3) and had no basis for his obsession

Actually disturbed the speaker less than did the singer

Had little "sensitivity" (line 5) and was undeserving of sympathy

Was a major source of the noise from which the speaker wished to escape

Sample Question 3
It can be inferred that the speaker and the drunk were "fellow victims" (line 22) in that

Both had lost control of their passions

Neither received support from friends or relatives

Each had in a different way proven to be a failure

Neither was any longer able to feel guilt or responsibility

Both were tormented by distracting disturbances