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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Either/Or : Chapter 13, Ultimatum and.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occasion caused the young man to fume according to the author?
(a) A church wedding.
(b) A birthday party.
(c) A Mayday party.
(d) A funeral.

2. Why do the author's two Englishmen travel to Arabia?
(a) To visit Mecca.
(b) To discuss philosophy.
(c) To purchase horses.
(d) To smoke tobacco.

3. What does the author say would be a matter of indifference to Christians?
(a) Whether Christ was literally an incarnation of almighty God.
(b) Whether Christ was ugly or handsome.
(c) Whether Christ physically rose from the dead.
(d) Whether Christ was born in December or July.

4. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?
(a) A quality of ephemerality.
(b) A quality of lameness.
(c) A quality of sexiness.
(d) A quality of duplexity.

5. What is the first subject Kierkegaard discusses?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Passion.
(d) Friendship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What capacity of the soul does the author say is missing in the young man?

2. What is the middle course that the "marriage of convenience" takes according to the author?

3. To what do doubt and despair belong according to the author?

4. What character in opera does the author say embodies the state preceding love?

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

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