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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 author's attitude toward scholarship?
(a) The author is utterly devoted to scholarship.
(b) The author is amused by scholarship.
(c) The author despises scholarship.
(d) The author respects scholarship.

2. What kind of energy does the author say a dying person has?
(a) Supranatural energy.
(b) Not very much energy at all.
(c) Atomic energy.
(d) Light energy.

3. What does the author accuse the young man of having become?
(a) A critic.
(b) A prostitute.
(c) A liar.
(d) A thief.

4. Why is the author accustomed to writing on this particular object?
(a) Because he is a public official.
(b) Because he is blind.
(c) Because he lives in ancient Egypt.
(d) Because he lives in modern India.

5. According to the author, what is the lifeblood of marriage?
(a) Frankness.
(b) All of these.
(c) Openness on a large scale.
(d) Uprightness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the author's two Englishmen travel to Arabia?

2. What does the author say that the first love always is?

3. What does the author assert is more important than cultivating one's mind?

4. What is the second subject Kierkegaard examines?

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

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