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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What concept does the author of the letter introduce at the beginning of this section?
(a) The concept of Either/Or.
(b) The concept of moral accountability.
(c) The concept of relativity.
(d) The concept of bilocation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author call the young man's condition of despair?

2. What is the author's attitude toward scholarship?

3. What capacity of the soul does the author say is missing in the young man?

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

5. In what does the author say the young man is prolific?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author dislike about philosophy?

2. How does the author define philosophy and what does he appreciate about it?

3. What is the author's definition of the ethical?

4. What "gift of grace" does the author say he would add to those listed in the bible?

5. What does the author say is the proper attitude for a married man in a time of material need?

6. How does the author describe his depression?

7. What are somethings the author writes might be said to a depressed young man?

8. What does the author say to despotic husbands who utterly dominate their wives?

9. Why does the author warn against young men being tied down to making a living right away?

10. What does the author assert is the mystic's error?

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