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

2. What is the author's attitude toward scholarship?
(a) The author despises scholarship.
(b) The author is utterly devoted to scholarship.
(c) The author respects scholarship.
(d) The author is amused by scholarship.

3. Who does the author propose might come to the young man for advice?
(a) The author proposes no one would come to the young man for advice.
(b) A brilliant youth, even younger than he.
(c) A coy milkmaid.
(d) A brazenly licentious priest.

4. About what emperor does the author go on at length?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Constantine.
(c) Nero.
(d) Augustus Caesar.

5. What does the author say concerns the young man?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Serious questions of philosophy.
(c) Either/Or.
(d) His parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author write is on the other side of the aesthetic?

2. What does the author say are the spheres proper to thought?

3. How fast do philosophers hasten to the past according to the author?

4. To what do doubt and despair belong according to the author?

5. Why does the author say the young man is afraid of continuity?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does the author dislike about philosophy?

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

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

10. Briefly describe what the author means by the term Either/Or.

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