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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 are the spheres proper to thought?
(a) Nature.
(b) All of these.
(c) Logic.
(d) History.
2. The author says he would rather have a murder on his conscience than what?
(a) To have lied about his age.
(b) To have stolen an erotic glance at a beautiful woman.
(c) To have eaten the last piece of cake.
(d) To have spurned a girls love.
3. What kind of woman does the author compare the young man to?
(a) A jealous woman.
(b) A spurned woman.
(c) A woman in labor.
(d) A woman in love.
4. About what emperor does the author go on at length?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Nero.
(c) Augustus Caesar.
(d) Constantine.
5. What does the author say concerns the young man?
(a) His parents.
(b) Serious questions of philosophy.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Either/Or.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to the author, of what can the mystic not be absolved?
2. If a sailor is enchanted by a mermaid's song, what is the only way to break the spell according to the author?
3. According to the author, what is love itself?
4. If one can "lose the whole world" without damaging one's soul, the author of the letter asserts, then what must "one's soul" prove to be?
5. If the the young man fails his wife, who does the author say will punish him?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe his depression?
2. What is the relationship between the ethical and the aesthetic?
3. What does the author assert is the mystic's error?
4. How may talent become a hindrance to the enjoyment of life, according to the author?
5. Explain how the author uses the metaphor of a ship captain to explain Either/Or.
6. What does the author say to despotic husbands who utterly dominate their wives?
7. Why does the author write humans fear death?
8. 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?
9. What is the point of the author's story about the count and countess?
10. What does the author say is more important than choosing the right thing?
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