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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 11, Equilibrium - Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?
(a) Drinking and drug taking.
(b) Praying all day and all night.
(c) Attempting to help every person they come across.
(d) Self-tormenting and annihilation of the physical.

2. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?
(a) A quality of ephemerality.
(b) A quality of lameness.
(c) A quality of duplexity.
(d) A quality of sexiness.

3. In what form is EITHER/OR written?
(a) In the form of an epistle.
(b) In the form of a code.
(c) In the form of a casual conversation.
(d) In the form of a lecture.

4. To what does the author of the letter compare the young man at the end of this section?
(a) The author compares the young man to the pilot of a ship.
(b) The author compares the young man to a bull rider.
(c) The author compares the young man to an actor.
(d) The author compares the young man to a blushing bride.

5. What does the author say can crush the aesthetic in a human being?
(a) A Man.
(b) Nothing can crush the aesthetic in a human being.
(c) A Woman.
(d) An act of cruelty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. First love is equivalent to what type of faith according to the author?

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

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

5. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?

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