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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. At what moment is love annihilated according to the author?
(a) The moment it sins.
(b) The moment it becomes hate.
(c) The moment it doubts.
(d) The moment it becomes conscious of itself.

2. In addition to having a priority in itself, what other quality does marital love possess according to the author?
(a) Uncertainty.
(b) Constancy.
(c) Ephemerality.
(d) Profligacy.

3. What is the ethical according to the author?
(a) The ethical is a mystery that is fundamentally unknowable.
(b) The ethical is that with which a person punishes a person who misbehaves.
(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 does the author say is "the last to be satisfied"?
(a) The stomach.
(b) The heart.
(c) The eye.
(d) The ear.

5. What does the author anticipate will be the young man's first objection to married life?
(a) The monotony of it all.
(b) The conventionality of it all.
(c) The falseness of it all.
(d) The cuteness of it all.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which part of the wedding does the author find rather backward?

2. Every coming into existence, according to the author, always has an element of what?

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

4. How does the author describe the way of history?

5. What is the only way the author claims he would ever wish to be in relation to his wife?

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