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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 aspect of love does the author say is momentary?
(a) The romantic aspect.
(b) The hateful aspect.
(c) The sensuous aspect.
(d) The tender aspect.

2. Who is the only person who has gained everything according to the author?
(a) The person who has laughed at his faults.
(b) The person who has gained everything in the world.
(c) The person who has laughed at the faults of another.
(d) The person who has lost everything in the world.

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

4. The author claims what kind of feelings toward his wife?
(a) Feelings of sadness.
(b) Feelings of devotion.
(c) Feelings of anger.
(d) Feelings of anxiety.

5. Of what two things is first love a unity?
(a) Freedom and necessity.
(b) Hot and cold.
(c) Passion and indifference.
(d) Love and hate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?

3. On the whole, what does the author say it is to choose?

4. What does the author believe accounts for the young man's excessive anxiety?

5. What happens to choice if one admits meditation according to the author?

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