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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 9, Equilibrium.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the author's stated attitude toward these feelings?
(a) The author writes that the feelings are aberrant.
(b) The author writes that the feelings are the best kind of feelings.
(c) The author writes that the feelings are disturbing.
(d) The author writes that the feelings are entirely natural.

2. What happens to the person who profits by being secretive according to the author?
(a) He is always tortured.
(b) He always loses.
(c) He always comes in third.
(d) He always wins.

3. Who does the author propose might come to the young man for advice?
(a) A brazenly licentious priest.
(b) A coy milkmaid.
(c) A brilliant youth, even younger than he.
(d) The author proposes no one would come to the young man for advice.

4. What is the author's answer to the claim that poverty may be a serious difficulty for marriage?
(a) Pray.
(b) Work.
(c) Love.
(d) Eat.

5. In discussing the the aesthetic of marriage, upon what does the author of the letter draw?
(a) The author draws on examples from his own marriage.
(b) The author draws on examples from Confucius's marriage.
(c) The author draws on examples from his friend's marriage.
(d) The author draws on invented examples of marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How ought we deal with the frail according to the author?

2. According to the author of the letter, to what does a religious person refer everything?

3. How does the author say he must always be with the young man?

4. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?

5. What path does nature take according to the author?

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