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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 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.

2. What is the quality of marital love's movements?
(a) Marital love's movements are inward.
(b) Marital love's movements are outward.
(c) Marital love's movements are slow.
(d) Marital love's movements are quick.

3. What history does the author say proves to be incommensurable for poetry?
(a) World history.
(b) Religious history.
(c) Danish history.
(d) Inner history.

4. What creature sends the author into "reverie"?
(a) The tiger.
(b) The jellyfish.
(c) The elephant.
(d) The catfish.

5. 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 a bull rider.
(b) The author compares the young man to the pilot of a ship.
(c) The author compares the young man to a blushing bride.
(d) The author compares the young man to an actor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say romantic love is built on?

2. What does the author anticipate will be the young man's first objection to married life?

3. What does the author call the young man's intellectual capacities?

4. The author asserts that making a good choice does not depend so much on deliberation as on what?

5. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?

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