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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 8, Equilibrium.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the middle course that the "marriage of convenience" takes according to the author?
(a) The middle course is the path between comfort and tribulation.
(b) The middle course is the path between love and hate.
(c) The middle course is the path between immediate love, and calculating understanding.
(d) The middle course is the path between youth and maturity.

2. According to the author, what happens to the value of an original, or first, thing if it may be repeated?
(a) The value increases.
(b) The value decreases.
(c) The value remains the same.
(d) The first thing never had any value.

3. Who is the only person who has gained everything according to the author?
(a) The person who has lost everything in the world.
(b) The person who has gained everything in the world.
(c) The person who has laughed at the faults of another.
(d) The person who has laughed at his faults.

4. What does the author say that every order of life, including marriage, has?
(a) Workers.
(b) Paragons.
(c) Plebeians.
(d) Traitors.

5. What system does the author say he observed while he was a guest in the home of a young married couple?
(a) The secrecy system.
(b) The silent system.
(c) The fairness system.
(d) The Stanislavsky system.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wherein is contained the whole wisdom of life according to the author?

2. The author claims there is the deepest relationship between what two things?

3. To what does the author of the letter compare the young man at the end of this section?

4. What creature sends the author into "reverie"?

5. What does the author say would be a matter of indifference to Christians?

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