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

2. What is the author's stated attitude toward these feelings?
(a) The author writes that the feelings are entirely natural.
(b) The author writes that the feelings are aberrant.
(c) The author writes that the feelings are the best kind of feelings.
(d) The author writes that the feelings are disturbing.

3. What does the author say art and poetry do for us?
(a) Art and poetry bore most of us to tears.
(b) Art and poetry delight us in the moment of consummation.
(c) Art and poetry torture us with their beauty.
(d) Art and poetry amaze us with the complexity of their construction.

4. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?
(a) By being a process of assimilation.
(b) By being a process of history.
(c) By being a process of destroying.
(d) By being a process of dominating.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is everyone born with a penchant for according to the author?

2. What does the author say is another way to articulate the importance of living aesthetically?

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

4. What occasion caused the young man to fume according to the author?

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

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