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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 8, Equilibrium.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must a captain of a ship make swift decisions about direction changes?
(a) Because the captain's crew is rather inept.
(b) Because while the captain is deciding, the ship continues forward at a constant velocity.
(c) Because the captain constantly changes his mind.
(d) Because the captain's ship is old and takes along time to adjust its course.

2. According to the author, true marriage includes the religious and what other element?
(a) The pure.
(b) The sacrilegious.
(c) The fated.
(d) The erotic.

3. What does the author say is the most intensive enjoyment?
(a) Sexual intercourse.
(b) Clutching the enjoyment in the consciousness that it may vanish in the next moment.
(c) Dreaming as if you would live forever.
(d) Drug taking.

4. What does the author say is the defect of his era?
(a) Depression.
(b) Facism.
(c) Ambivalence.
(d) Frivolity.

5. What does the author say one must transform to preserve the aesthetic in human beings?
(a) One must transform suffering into joy.
(b) One must transform lemons into lemonade.
(c) One must transform beauty into pain.
(d) One must transform outer trials into inner trials.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the author compare the engagement period?

2. From who does the author say the secrecy system generally comes?

3. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?

4. Wherein is contained the whole wisdom of life according to the author?

5. What is the relationship between marriage and first love according to the author?

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