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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 does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?
(a) The eternal.
(b) The cruel.
(c) The erotic.
(d) The temporal.

2. What is ostensibly one of the most respectable reasons for getting married according to the author?
(a) To do penance.
(b) To enoble one's character.
(c) There is no respectable reason for getting married.
(d) To test one's patience.

3. What does the author say the young man's attitude toward ethics is?
(a) The author says the young man despises ethics.
(b) The author says the young man finds ethics amusing.
(c) The author says the young man is not ordinarily disdainful of ethics.
(d) The author says the young man finds ethics fascinating.

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

5. Why must a captain of a ship make swift decisions about direction changes?
(a) Because the captain's crew is rather inept.
(b) Because the captain constantly changes his mind.
(c) Because the captain's ship is old and takes along time to adjust its course.
(d) Because while the captain is deciding, the ship continues forward at a constant velocity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reader to understand about the content of Kierkegaard's letter?

2. What does an individual become when his heart is open according to the author?

3. How does the author say he must always be with the young man?

4. In what form is EITHER/OR written?

5. What does the author say he hates?

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