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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author find sad in the contemplating of human life?
(a) That most people go on about their lives as it they will never die.
(b) That most people live out their lives in a quiet lostness.
(c) That most people never learn the value of a dollar.
(d) That most people never learn the joy of a beautiful marriage.

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

3. What does the author urge the young man to do with his "droll fancies"?
(a) Keep them.
(b) Ignore them.
(c) Rid himself of them.
(d) Pass them on to the object of his affection.

4. According to the author how does philosophy view history?
(a) Philosophy sees history under the category of meteorology.
(b) Philosophy sees history under the category of necessity.
(c) Philosophy sees history under the category of freedom.
(d) Philosophy sees history under the category of mathematics.

5. What does the author say happens to people who deceive others for an extended period?
(a) Such people live ever more happily.
(b) Such people become unable to show their true natures.
(c) Such people become dim-witted.
(d) Such people get elected to public office.

6. What does the author say is "the last to be satisfied"?
(a) The eye.
(b) The stomach.
(c) The heart.
(d) The ear.

7. Why does the author say he fights for Either/Or in his letter to the young man?
(a) For freedom.
(b) For beauty.
(c) For money.
(d) For fidelity.

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

9. What does the author call a poet-existence?
(a) A drag.
(b) A delight.
(c) A sin.
(d) A sacrifice.

10. What is the author's attitude toward depression?
(a) Depression is the fault of the depressed person.
(b) Depression makes a person wise.
(c) Depression victimizes millions of people.
(d) Depression is the most beautiful gift from God.

11. What path does nature take according to the author?
(a) The widest path.
(b) The hilliest path.
(c) The shortest path.
(d) The longest path.

12. What does the author say cannot survive in the young man's thought?
(a) Morals.
(b) The infinite.
(c) Ethics.
(d) The finite.

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 despises ethics.
(c) The author says the young man finds ethics amusing.
(d) The author says the young man finds ethics fascinating.

14. What phrase does the young man fling about according to the author?
(a) "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
(b) "It is not the given that is great, but the acquired."
(c) "It takes one to know one."
(d) "Too many cooks spoil the broth."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say that the young man thinks life is?

2. What does the author claim he has never passed himself off as?

3. What does the author write is on the other side of the aesthetic?

4. What is everyone born with a penchant for according to the author?

5. What is the ethical according to the author?

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