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

2. Why do the author's two Englishmen travel to Arabia?
(a) To smoke tobacco.
(b) To visit Mecca.
(c) To discuss philosophy.
(d) To purchase horses.

3. The author asserts that making a good choice does not depend so much on deliberation as on what?
(a) What others wish for one to do.
(b) Just doing what one feels.
(c) A learning of correctness.
(d) A baptism of the will.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author says he would rather have a murder on his conscience than what?

3. What does the author say that the young man thinks life is?

4. What is the secret horror of every person who lives aethically, according to the author?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how the author uses the metaphor of a ship captain to explain Either/Or.

2. What does the author write about "the Moment"?

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

4. What are the advantages of the ethical theory of talent as opposed to the aesthetic theory of talent?

5. What is the point of the author's story about the count and countess?

6. What risk does the author say one runs when one despairs about something in particular?

7. What does the author dislike about philosophy?

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

9. What does the author say the young man proposes is the definition of a hero? What does the author encourage the young man to suppose instead?

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

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