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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 9, Equilibrium.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character in opera does the author say embodies the state preceding love?
(a) Don Giovanni in DON GIOVANNI.
(b) Page in FIGARO.
(c) Tristan in TRISTAN AND ISOLDE.
(d) Wotan in THE RING CYCLE.

2. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?
(a) A quality of sexiness.
(b) A quality of duplexity.
(c) A quality of lameness.
(d) A quality of ephemerality.

3. What is the opening phrase of the work?
(a) "Hey, guy,".
(b) "Red Fox to Chrome Eagle:".
(c) "Dear Friend,".
(d) "Ladies and Gentlemen,".

4. Who has lost himself in another according to the author?
(a) The one who laughs.
(b) The one who loves.
(c) The one who hates.
(d) The one who dodges bullets.

5. Between what two types of doubt does the author say it is important to distinguish?
(a) No doubt and full doubt.
(b) Temporal and eternal doubt.
(c) Religious and erotic doubt.
(d) Personal and scientific doubt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the author's stated attitude toward these feelings?

2. What creature sends the author into "reverie"?

3. What does the author anticipate will be the young man's first objection to married life?

4. How does the author describe a couple's connection in a marriage of convenience?

5. What does the author call the young man's intellectual capacities?

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