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

2. What relationship does the author assert between the substance one uses to become intoxicated and how difficult the habit of intoxicating oneself is to cure?
(a) The finer the substance one uses to become intoxicated the more difficult the habit is to cure.
(b) The cheaper the substance one uses to become intoxicated the harder the habit is to cure.
(c) It is easier to overcome being intoxicated by black substances than by white.
(d) There is no relationship between the substance one uses to become intoxicated and how difficult the habit of intoxicating oneself is to cure.

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

4. To what do doubt and despair belong according to the author?
(a) The hearts of young men.
(b) The same family.
(c) Completely different spheres.
(d) The souls of young women.

5. What is the ethical according to the author?
(a) The ethical is that by which a person spontaneously is what he is.
(b) The ethical is a mystery that is fundamentally unknowable.
(c) The ethical is that with which a person punishes a person who misbehaves.
(d) The ethical is that by which a person becomes what he becomes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say an aesthetic representation requires?

2. How does the concept the author mentions act on him?

3. What happens to choice if one admits meditation 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 call a poet-existence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author dislike about philosophy?

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

3. How may talent become a hindrance to the enjoyment of life, according to the author?

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

5. Why does the author write humans fear death?

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

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

8. What is the relationship between the ethical and the aesthetic?

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

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

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