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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author accuses the young man of hardening his mind to what?
(a) To interpret all existence in aesthetic categories.
(b) Lusting after women day and night.
(c) Frittering away his intellectual life.
(d) The existence of right and wrong.

3. What is everyone born with a penchant for according to the author?
(a) Climbing hills.
(b) Descending hills.
(c) Painting pictures.
(d) Singing songs.

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

5. The author claims there is the deepest relationship between what two things?
(a) A man and woman who have gotten divorced.
(b) Denmark and Norway.
(c) A choice and the people surrounding the person choosing.
(d) A choice and the one who is choosing.

6. In what does the author say the young man is prolific?
(a) In coining phrases of his favorite conclusions.
(b) In writing novels.
(c) In composing symphonies.
(d) In writing volumes of poetry.

7. What does the author say an aesthetic representation requires?
(a) Lots of money.
(b) A beautiful picture frame.
(c) Lots of laughter.
(d) Concentration on the moment.

8. What does the author accuse the young man of having become?
(a) A prostitute.
(b) A liar.
(c) A thief.
(d) A critic.

9. The author asserts that making a good choice does not depend so much on deliberation as on what?
(a) A baptism of the will.
(b) Just doing what one feels.
(c) What others wish for one to do.
(d) A learning of correctness.

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

11. On the whole, what does the author say it is to choose?
(a) A ridiculous term for duty.
(b) A polite term for selfishness.
(c) An asinine term for the hypothetical.
(d) A stringent term for the ethical.

12. What happens to choice if one admits meditation according to the author?
(a) If one admits meditation, there is no effect whatsoever on absolute choice.
(b) If one admits meditation, then there is no absolute choice.
(c) If one admits meditation, absolute choice ceases to be meditation.
(d) There is no absolute choice unless one admits meditation.

13. According to the author, of what can the mystic not be absolved?
(a) A certain obtrusiveness in his relationship to God.
(b) A certain exclusivity in his relationship with others.
(c) Harboring anger toward his brother.
(d) Harboring lust in his heart.

14. What is the married man's most dangerous enemy according to the author?
(a) His wife.
(b) His wife's suitors.
(c) Time.
(d) His conscience.

15. What concept does the author of the letter introduce at the beginning of this section?
(a) The concept of moral accountability.
(b) The concept of Either/Or.
(c) The concept of relativity.
(d) The concept of bilocation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say art and poetry do for us?

2. How fast do philosophers hasten to the past according to the author?

3. Why does the author say the young man is afraid of continuity?

4. What does the author call a poet-existence?

5. What history does the author say proves to be incommensurable for poetry?

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