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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 very long and arduous.
(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 ultimately amusing.

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

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

4. What does Either/Or represent?
(a) An album of music.
(b) Marital fidelity.
(c) The capital of Denmark.
(d) Choice in human life.

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

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

7. What history does the author say proves to be incommensurable for poetry?
(a) Danish history.
(b) Religious history.
(c) World history.
(d) Inner history.

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

9. 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) A ridiculous term for duty.
(d) An asinine term for the hypothetical.

10. 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 young man will punish himself.
(c) The author says his wife will punish the young man.
(d) The author says the state will punish the young man.

11. 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 get elected to public office.
(d) Such people become dim-witted.

12. What is the married man's most dangerous enemy according to the author?
(a) His wife.
(b) Time.
(c) His wife's suitors.
(d) His conscience.

13. What is the risk in despairing over something particular according to the author?
(a) That one's despair will be totally overwhelming.
(b) That one will be distracted from the joy of sunsets.
(c) That one will forget one's obligation to one's wife.
(d) That one's despair will not be authentic and deep.

14. 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) Getting married.
(c) Becoming conscious in one's eternal validity.
(d) Taking in a sunset.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author propose might come to the young man for advice?

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

3. What does the author say art and poetry do for us?

4. What does the author call the young man's intellectual capacities?

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

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