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

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

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 is not ordinarily disdainful of ethics.
(c) The author says the young man finds ethics fascinating.
(d) The author says the young man finds ethics amusing.

4. First love is equivalent to what type of faith according to the author?
(a) The type of faith the poor have.
(b) The type of faith that believes itself capable of moving mountains.
(c) The type of faith the haughty and vain have.
(d) The type of faith that believes there has never been anything but itself.

5. According to the author, what is the lifeblood of marriage?
(a) Openness on a large scale.
(b) Frankness.
(c) Uprightness.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author how does philosophy view history?

2. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?

3. Between what two things does the writer say there may exist a significant difference?

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

5. What idea does the insane man, of whom the author writes, have fixed in his head?

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