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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 10, Equilibrium.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. First love is equivalent to what type of faith according to the author?
(a) The type of faith the haughty and vain have.
(b) The type of faith that believes itself capable of moving mountains.
(c) The type of faith that believes there has never been anything but itself.
(d) The type of faith the poor have.

2. How does the author describe the way of history?
(a) The author describes the way of history as being only apparent many years after the fact.
(b) The author describes the way of history as being ultimately amusing.
(c) The author describes the way of history as being a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
(d) The author describes the way of history as being very long and arduous.

3. What phrase does the young man fling about according to the author?
(a) "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
(b) "Too many cooks spoil the broth."
(c) "It is not the given that is great, but the acquired."
(d) "It takes one to know one."

4. What does the author write is on the other side of the aesthetic?
(a) The hateful.
(b) The romantic.
(c) The joyous.
(d) The indifferent.

5. What natural need does every human being have according to the author?
(a) The need to formulate a life view.
(b) The need to find God.
(c) The need to exonerate himself.
(d) The need to marry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea does the insane man, of whom the author writes, have fixed in his head?

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

3. Between what two things does the writer say there may exist a significant difference?

4. According to the author how does philosophy view history?

5. What is the author's attitude toward depression?

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