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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 write is on the other side of the aesthetic?
(a) The romantic.
(b) The hateful.
(c) The joyous.
(d) The indifferent.

2. What does the author say is another way to articulate the importance of living aesthetically?
(a) One must enjoy life.
(b) One must marry well.
(c) One must find the truth.
(d) One must destroy life.

3. What is ostensibly one of the most respectable reasons for getting married according to the author?
(a) To do penance.
(b) To enoble one's character.
(c) To test one's patience.
(d) There is no respectable reason for getting married.

4. Between what two types of doubt does the author say it is important to distinguish?
(a) Religious and erotic doubt.
(b) No doubt and full doubt.
(c) Personal and scientific doubt.
(d) Temporal and eternal doubt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author claim the aesthetic is?

2. According to the author, what is the lifeblood of marriage?

3. What is the author's attitude toward depression?

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

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

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