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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 ethical according to the author?
(a) The ethical is that by which a person spontaneously is what he is.
(b) The ethical is that with which a person punishes a person who misbehaves.
(c) The ethical is a mystery that is fundamentally unknowable.
(d) The ethical is that by which a person becomes what he becomes.

2. What does the author claim Martin Luther said a Christian has never died of?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Unkindness.
(c) Typhoid.
(d) Hunger.

3. 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 enoble one's character.
(c) To do penance.
(d) To test one's patience.

4. Where does the author say the young man might be intoxicated by aesthetic pleasure?
(a) The theatre.
(b) A cricket match.
(c) A baseball game.
(d) An art gallery.

5. Who does the author say has triumphed?
(a) The man who earns enough money to provide for his family.
(b) The man who defeats all of his adversaries in business.
(c) The man who dominates his wife.
(d) The man who puts the state of his relationship with his wife at the top of his list of concerns.

Short Answer Questions

1. If the the young man fails his wife, who does the author say will punish him?

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

3. How does the author say the young man may best perceive the state that precedes first love?

4. What does the author say is the defect of his era?

5. Why does the author suggest the young man may be "depressed" and fear marriage?

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