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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 11, Equilibrium - Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the opening phrase of the work?
(a) "Red Fox to Chrome Eagle:".
(b) "Dear Friend,".
(c) "Hey, guy,".
(d) "Ladies and Gentlemen,".

2. What does the author say his era has discerned about romantic love very well?
(a) The strength of it.
(b) The weakness of it.
(c) The non-existence of it.
(d) The fleeting quality of it.

3. What does the author say the actual experience of love is?
(a) Deeply painful.
(b) A falling backward.
(c) An awakening.
(d) A pretty song.

4. What does the author say cannot survive in the young man's thought?
(a) The infinite.
(b) Morals.
(c) Ethics.
(d) The finite.

5. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?
(a) The cruel.
(b) The temporal.
(c) The eternal.
(d) The erotic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one the thing the author says he thanks God for?

2. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?

3. What does the author say he hates?

4. Who does the author say has triumphed?

5. What does the author say the young man's attitude toward ethics is?

(see the answer key)

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