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

2. What is the author's attitude toward scholarship?
(a) The author despises scholarship.
(b) The author is amused by scholarship.
(c) The author is utterly devoted to scholarship.
(d) The author respects scholarship.

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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) Taking in a sunset.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Thoroughly enjoying a great party.

10. Who does the author say cannot love?
(a) A person who is not Christian.
(b) A person who beats his wife.
(c) A person who always tells the truth.
(d) A peson who cannot open himself.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say is another way to articulate the importance of living aesthetically?

2. According to the author how does philosophy view history?

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

4. What phrase does the young man fling about according to the author?

5. What does the author claim he is not?

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