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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 10, Equilibrium.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?
(a) By being a process of assimilation.
(b) By being a process of history.
(c) By being a process of dominating.
(d) By being a process of destroying.

2. What does the author say is another way to articulate the importance of living aesthetically?
(a) One must find the truth.
(b) One must marry well.
(c) One must destroy life.
(d) One must enjoy life.

3. What does the author claim the aesthetic is?
(a) The aesthetic is that by which a person spontaneously arouses the essence of someone else.
(b) The aesthetic is that by which a person spontaneously is what he is.
(c) The aesthetic is that by which a person becomes what he becomes.
(d) The aesthetic is a mystery that is fundamentally unknowable.

4. Why does the author say he fights for Either/Or in his letter to the young man?
(a) For beauty.
(b) For fidelity.
(c) For freedom.
(d) For money.

5. What does the author say art and poetry do for us?
(a) Art and poetry torture us with their beauty.
(b) Art and poetry bore most of us to tears.
(c) Art and poetry amaze us with the complexity of their construction.
(d) Art and poetry delight us in the moment of consummation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the author's attitude toward depression?

2. At what moment is love annihilated according to the author?

3. What idea does the insane man, of whom the author writes, have fixed in his head?

4. What does the author write is on the other side of the aesthetic?

5. About what emperor does the author go on at length?

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