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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of woman does the author compare the young man to?
(a) A spurned woman.
(b) A woman in love.
(c) A woman in labor.
(d) A jealous woman.

3. What kind of person does the author say the young man is like?
(a) A dying person.
(b) A deaf person.
(c) A flying person.
(d) A mute person.

4. What does the author write is on the other side of the aesthetic?
(a) The joyous.
(b) The indifferent.
(c) The romantic.
(d) The hateful.

5. What does the author call the young man's condition of despair?
(a) Fortunate.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Propitious.
(d) Lively.

6. The author accuses the young man of hardening his mind to what?
(a) To interpret all existence in aesthetic categories.
(b) Frittering away his intellectual life.
(c) The existence of right and wrong.
(d) Lusting after women day and night.

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

8. In what does the author say the young man is prolific?
(a) In writing volumes of poetry.
(b) In coining phrases of his favorite conclusions.
(c) In composing symphonies.
(d) In writing novels.

9. What is the ethical according to the author?
(a) The ethical is that by which a person spontaneously is what he is.
(b) The ethical is that by which a person becomes what he becomes.
(c) The ethical is that with which a person punishes a person who misbehaves.
(d) The ethical is a mystery that is fundamentally unknowable.

10. According to the author, reflection never reaches beyond what?
(a) The power of marriage.
(b) Meditation.
(c) A man being what he is.
(d) Prayer.

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

12. What does the author claim he has never passed himself off as?
(a) A cobbler.
(b) A philosopher.
(c) A poet.
(d) A cabinet maker.

13. What does the author say the young man's attitude toward ethics is?
(a) The author says the young man is not ordinarily disdainful of ethics.
(b) The author says the young man finds ethics fascinating.
(c) The author says the young man finds ethics amusing.
(d) The author says the young man despises ethics.

14. What does the author call the young man's intellectual capacities?
(a) Beyond genius.
(b) Non-existant.
(c) Truly remarkable.
(d) Lacking.

15. How does the author describe the way of history?
(a) The author describes the way of history as being only apparent many years after the fact.
(b) The author describes the way of history as being a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
(c) The author describes the way of history as being very long and arduous.
(d) The author describes the way of history as being ultimately amusing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "humble view" does the author say he presents to the young man?

2. Who does the author say cannot love?

3. What path does nature take according to the author?

4. What does the author accuse the young man of having become?

5. Why does the author say it seems superfluous to tell the young man what is aesthetic?

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