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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 is another way to articulate the importance of living aesthetically?
(a) One must enjoy life.
(b) One must find the truth.
(c) One must destroy life.
(d) One must marry well.

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

3. 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.

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

5. What does the author say the young man's attitude toward ethics is?
(a) The author says the young man finds ethics amusing.
(b) The author says the young man finds ethics fascinating.
(c) The author says the young man is not ordinarily disdainful of ethics.
(d) The author says the young man despises ethics.

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

7. Who does the author propose might come to the young man for advice?
(a) A coy milkmaid.
(b) A brilliant youth, even younger than he.
(c) A brazenly licentious priest.
(d) The author proposes no one would come to the young man for advice.

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

9. If a sailor is enchanted by a mermaid's song, what is the only way to break the spell according to the author?
(a) One must remember Either/Or.
(b) One must swallow the eye of a newt.
(c) One must play the same piece backward without making a single mistake.
(d) One must consult a wise man and obtain his blessing.

10. What does the author say concerns the young man?
(a) Serious questions of philosophy.
(b) Nothing.
(c) His parents.
(d) Either/Or.

11. What does the author say it is easy to do?
(a) Have a happy marriage.
(b) Deceive oneself.
(c) Walk a hundred miles.
(d) Levitate.

12. What is the author's attitude toward depression?
(a) Depression is the fault of the depressed person.
(b) Depression makes a person wise.
(c) Depression is the most beautiful gift from God.
(d) Depression victimizes millions of people.

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

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

15. What is the secret horror of every person who lives aethically, according to the author?
(a) Tripping.
(b) Sinning.
(c) Despairing.
(d) Living freely.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what emperor does the author go on at length?

2. Why does the author say it seems superfluous to tell the young man what is aesthetic?

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

4. What kind of energy does the author say a dying person has?

5. What kind of person does the author say the young man is like?

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