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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 the author describe the way of history?
(a) The author describes the way of history as being ultimately amusing.
(b) The author describes the way of history as being very long and arduous.
(c) The author describes the way of history as being only apparent many years after the fact.
(d) The author describes the way of history as being a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

2. About what emperor does the author go on at length?
(a) Nero.
(b) Constantine.
(c) Augustus Caesar.
(d) Julius Caesar.

3. What does the author say are the spheres proper to thought?
(a) All of these.
(b) Nature.
(c) History.
(d) Logic.

4. What idea does the insane man, of whom the author writes, have fixed in his head?
(a) The insane man has the idea that his veins are filled with oil.
(b) The insane man has the idea that his apartment is full of flies.
(c) The insane man has the idea that his mattress is full of butterflies.
(d) The insane man has the idea that his heart is full of spiders.

5. What path does nature take according to the author?
(a) The hilliest path.
(b) The widest path.
(c) The shortest path.
(d) The longest path.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ethical according to the author?

2. Between what two types of doubt does the author say it is important to distinguish?

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

4. What phrase does the young man fling about according to the author?

5. What history does the author say proves to be incommensurable for poetry?

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