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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 say an aesthetic representation requires?
(a) Concentration on the moment.
(b) A beautiful picture frame.
(c) Lots of laughter.
(d) Lots of money.

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

3. 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 never learn the value of a dollar.
(c) That most people live out their lives in a quiet lostness.
(d) That most people never learn the joy of a beautiful marriage.

4. According to the author, what is love itself?
(a) An illusion.
(b) The easy path.
(c) A myth.
(d) The aesthetic.

5. What does the author say is the young man's position in relation to philosophy?
(a) The young man's position is indifferent to philosophy.
(b) The young man's position is friendly to philosophy.
(c) The young man's position is anathema to philosophy.
(d) The young man's position is mildly at odds with philosophy.

6. If the the young man fails his wife, who does the author say will punish him?
(a) The author says the Danish marriage police will punish the young man.
(b) The author says the state will punish the young man.
(c) The author says his wife will punish the young man.
(d) The author says the young man will punish himself.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author accuses the young man of hardening his mind to what?

3. What path does nature take 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 it is easy to do?

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