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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of person does the author say the young man is like?

3. What is a moment that is more significant than everything else in the entire world according to the author?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are somethings the author writes might be said to a depressed young man?

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

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

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

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

10. Why does the author write humans fear death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The final chapter of EITHER/OR opens with a prayer. Discuss the content and significance of this prayer in relation to the final chapter and EITHER/OR as a whole. Cite specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

The final chapter of EITHER/OR takes the form of a sermon? How does this form serve the author's intentions? How does it limit him? What other form might the final chapter have taken? How would that change the effect of the book for better or worse? Cite specific examples from the text to support your position.

Essay Topic 3

In the final chapter of EITHER/OR the author asserts it is upbuilding to realize that in relation to God we are always in the wrong? Elucidate the author's position in detail citing specific examples from the text.

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