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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. Who does the author say has triumphed?
(a) The man who dominates his wife.
(b) The man who earns enough money to provide for his family.
(c) The man who defeats all of his adversaries in business.
(d) The man who puts the state of his relationship with his wife at the top of his list of concerns.

2. The author asserts that making a good choice does not depend so much on deliberation as on what?
(a) A learning of correctness.
(b) What others wish for one to do.
(c) Just doing what one feels.
(d) A baptism of the will.

3. To what does he assert he sacrifices his life?
(a) To his wife.
(b) To his work.
(c) To his children.
(d) All of these.

4. What phrase does the young man fling about according to the author?
(a) "Too many cooks spoil the broth."
(b) "It takes one to know one."
(c) "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
(d) "It is not the given that is great, but the acquired."

5. How does the author say the young man lives?
(a) The author says the young man lives by creeping up unnoticed on people.
(b) The author says the young man lives by stealing happy moments.
(c) The author says the young man lives by plundering.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the concept the author mentions act on him?

2. What idea does the insane man, of whom the author writes, have fixed in his head?

3. What does the author assert reflective love does?

4. What is the author's stated attitude toward these feelings?

5. Of what two things is first love a unity?

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