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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What natural need does every human being have according to the author?
(a) The need to find God.
(b) The need to formulate a life view.
(c) The need to exonerate himself.
(d) The need to marry.

2. What does the author say happens to people who deceive others for an extended period?
(a) Such people become unable to show their true natures.
(b) Such people get elected to public office.
(c) Such people become dim-witted.
(d) Such people live ever more happily.

3. What is the ethical according to the author?
(a) The ethical is that with which a person punishes a person who misbehaves.
(b) The ethical is a mystery that is fundamentally unknowable.
(c) The ethical is that by which a person becomes what he becomes.
(d) The ethical is that by which a person spontaneously is what he is.

4. What is the author's attitude toward depression?
(a) Depression victimizes millions of people.
(b) Depression makes a person wise.
(c) Depression is the most beautiful gift from God.
(d) Depression is the fault of the depressed person.

5. What is the married man's most dangerous enemy according to the author?
(a) His wife.
(b) His conscience.
(c) Time.
(d) His wife's suitors.

6. The author says he would rather have a murder on his conscience than what?
(a) To have stolen an erotic glance at a beautiful woman.
(b) To have spurned a girls love.
(c) To have lied about his age.
(d) To have eaten the last piece of cake.

7. What kind of woman does the author compare the young man to?
(a) A jealous woman.
(b) A woman in love.
(c) A woman in labor.
(d) A spurned woman.

8. What does the author claim he has never passed himself off as?
(a) A poet.
(b) A cabinet maker.
(c) A cobbler.
(d) A philosopher.

9. 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 a mystery that is fundamentally unknowable.
(d) The aesthetic is that by which a person becomes what he becomes.

10. What does the author say an aesthetic representation requires?
(a) A beautiful picture frame.
(b) Lots of laughter.
(c) Concentration on the moment.
(d) Lots of money.

11. What capacity of the soul does the author say is missing in the young man?
(a) Wit.
(b) Memory of his life.
(c) Logic.
(d) Imagination.

12. What kind of energy does the author say a dying person has?
(a) Light energy.
(b) Supranatural energy.
(c) Not very much energy at all.
(d) Atomic energy.

13. If a sailor is enchanted by a mermaid's song, what is the only way to break the spell according to the author?
(a) One must consult a wise man and obtain his blessing.
(b) One must play the same piece backward without making a single mistake.
(c) One must remember Either/Or.
(d) One must swallow the eye of a newt.

14. What "humble view" does the author say he presents to the young man?
(a) What it is to study and perform.
(b) What it is to choose and repent.
(c) What it is to hate and destroy.
(d) What it is to prepare and debate.

15. Why do the author's two Englishmen travel to Arabia?
(a) To visit Mecca.
(b) To purchase horses.
(c) To smoke tobacco.
(d) To discuss philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the secret horror of every person who lives aethically, according to the author?

2. The author claims there is the deepest relationship between what two things?

3. What does the author say cannot survive in the young man's thought?

4. How does the concept the author mentions act on him?

5. What does the author find sad in the contemplating of human life?

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