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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 art and poetry do for us?
(a) Art and poetry bore most of us to tears.
(b) Art and poetry torture us with their beauty.
(c) Art and poetry amaze us with the complexity of their construction.
(d) Art and poetry delight us in the moment of consummation.

2. What is everyone born with a penchant for according to the author?
(a) Painting pictures.
(b) Singing songs.
(c) Climbing hills.
(d) Descending hills.

3. 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.

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

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 that with which a person punishes a person who misbehaves.
(c) The ethical is a mystery that is fundamentally unknowable.
(d) The ethical is that by which a person becomes what he becomes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to choice if one admits meditation according to the author?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the folktale about Roland's three squires.

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

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

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

6. What advice does the author give the young man about despair?

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

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

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

10. What does the author say is more important than choosing the right thing?

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