2. What capacity of the soul does the author say is missing in the young man?
(a) Logic.
(b) Memory of his life.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Wit.

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

4. How does the concept the author mentions act on him?
(a) It makes him exceedingly earnest.
(b) It spurs his will to action.
(c) It makes him quite angry.
(d) It fills his soul with peace.

5. To what does he assert he sacrifices his life?
(a) All of these.
(b) To his wife.
(c) To his work.
(d) To his children.

6. What is a moment that is more significant than everything else in the entire world according to the author?
(a) Becoming conscious in one's eternal validity.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Thoroughly enjoying a great party.
(d) Taking in a sunset.

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

8. On the whole, what does the author say it is to choose?
(a) A stringent term for the ethical.
(b) An asinine term for the hypothetical.
(c) A ridiculous term for duty.
(d) A polite term for selfishness.

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

10. The author says he would rather have a murder on his conscience than what?
(a) To have lied about his age.
(b) To have eaten the last piece of cake.
(c) To have stolen an erotic glance at a beautiful woman.
(d) To have spurned a girls love.

11. What kind of energy does the author say a dying person has?
(a) Not very much energy at all.
(b) Supranatural energy.
(c) Atomic energy.
(d) Light energy.

12. What does the author assert is more important than cultivating one's mind?
(a) Gathering wealth.
(b) Traveling widely.
(c) Developing one's personality.
(d) Cultivating one's garden.

13. 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 finds ethics amusing.
(c) The author says the young man is not ordinarily disdainful of ethics.
(d) The author says the young man finds ethics fascinating.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What relationship does the author assert between the substance one uses to become intoxicated and how difficult the habit of intoxicating oneself is to cure?

2. The author claims there is the deepest relationship between what two things?

3. What does the author say an aesthetic representation requires?

4. What does the author urge the young man to do with his "droll fancies"?

5. What does the author call a poet-existence?

(see the answer keys)

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