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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 ostensibly one of the most respectable reasons for getting married according to the author?
(a) There is no respectable reason for getting married.
(b) To test one's patience.
(c) To enoble one's character.
(d) To do penance.
2. To what does the author of the letter compare the young man at the end of this section?
(a) The author compares the young man to an actor.
(b) The author compares the young man to the pilot of a ship.
(c) The author compares the young man to a bull rider.
(d) The author compares the young man to a blushing bride.
3. What is the one the thing the author says he thanks God for?
(a) The extraordinary refinement of his tastes.
(b) The clarity of his vision.
(c) The mutability of his humor.
(d) The imperturbability of his soul.
4. What does the author say cannot survive in the young man's thought?
(a) Ethics.
(b) The finite.
(c) Morals.
(d) The infinite.
5. Who does Kirkegaard explain the letter was intended for?
(a) Bathsheba.
(b) A young man.
(c) Joel.
(d) Nathan.
Short Answer Questions
1. First love is equivalent to what type of faith according to the author?
2. What does the author write is on the other side of the aesthetic?
3. Who is the only one who has a true conception of who he is according to the author?
4. In what form is EITHER/OR written?
5. What is the first subject Kierkegaard discusses?
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