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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How fast do philosophers hasten to the past according to the author?
(a) So fast that it ends up in the future.
(b) So fast that only philosophy's coattails remain in the present.
(c) Philosophy never hastens to the past.
(d) So fast that none of philosophy remains in the present at all.

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

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

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 mathematics.
(c) Philosophy sees history under the category of necessity.
(d) Philosophy sees history under the category of freedom.

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

6. Who does the author propose might come to the young man for advice?
(a) The author proposes no one would come to the young man for advice.
(b) A coy milkmaid.
(c) A brilliant youth, even younger than he.
(d) A brazenly licentious priest.

7. What does the author say that the young man thinks life is?
(a) A trial.
(b) A masquerade.
(c) A fair.
(d) A lark.

8. What does the author say are the spheres proper to thought?
(a) All of these.
(b) Nature.
(c) History.
(d) Logic.

9. What "humble view" does the author say he presents to the young man?
(a) What it is to prepare and debate.
(b) What it is to hate and destroy.
(c) What it is to study and perform.
(d) What it is to choose and repent.

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

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

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

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

14. To what do doubt and despair belong according to the author?
(a) The same family.
(b) The hearts of young men.
(c) Completely different spheres.
(d) The souls of young women.

15. Why does the author say it seems superfluous to tell the young man what is aesthetic?
(a) Because the young man is an aesthetic virtuoso.
(b) Because the young man surely will not listen.
(c) Because the young man is not a real person.
(d) Because the young man has surely burned the letter already.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. If a sailor is enchanted by a mermaid's song, what is the only way to break the spell according to the author?

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

5. What does the author say concerns the young man?

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