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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 married man's most dangerous enemy according to the author?
(a) His wife's suitors.
(b) His conscience.
(c) His wife.
(d) Time.

2. Who does Kirkegaard explain the letter was intended for?
(a) Nathan.
(b) Joel.
(c) Bathsheba.
(d) A young man.

3. What does the author say it is easy to do?
(a) Walk a hundred miles.
(b) Deceive oneself.
(c) Levitate.
(d) Have a happy marriage.

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

5. What natural need does every human being have according to the author?
(a) The need to marry.
(b) The need to find God.
(c) The need to formulate a life view.
(d) The need to exonerate himself.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author claims there is the deepest relationship between what two things?

3. If the the young man fails his wife, who does the author say will punish him?

4. What does the author say the young man he is writing to wants to be?

5. What kind of person does the author say the young man is like?

(see the answer key)

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