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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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 ultimately amusing.
(c) The author describes the way of history as being a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
(d) The author describes the way of history as being very long and arduous.

8. Wherein is contained the whole wisdom of life according to the author?
(a) In religious duty.
(b) In Either/Or.
(c) In marital commitment.
(d) In sensual pleasure.

9. What does the author say art and poetry do for us?
(a) Art and poetry torture us with their beauty.
(b) Art and poetry delight us in the moment of consummation.
(c) Art and poetry bore most of us to tears.
(d) Art and poetry amaze us with the complexity of their construction.

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

11. What natural need does every human being have according to the author?
(a) The need to formulate a life view.
(b) The need to exonerate himself.
(c) The need to find God.
(d) The need to marry.

12. What does the author anticipate will be the young man's first objection to married life?
(a) The monotony of it all.
(b) The cuteness of it all.
(c) The conventionality of it all.
(d) The falseness of it all.

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

14. Why must a captain of a ship make swift decisions about direction changes?
(a) Because while the captain is deciding, the ship continues forward at a constant velocity.
(b) Because the captain's ship is old and takes along time to adjust its course.
(c) Because the captain's crew is rather inept.
(d) Because the captain constantly changes his mind.

15. What concept does the author of the letter introduce at the beginning of this section?
(a) The concept of relativity.
(b) The concept of bilocation.
(c) The concept of moral accountability.
(d) The concept of Either/Or.