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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who does the author say cannot love?
(a) A person who beats his wife.
(b) A person who always tells the truth.
(c) A person who is not Christian.
(d) A peson who cannot open himself.

3. Why do the author's two Englishmen travel to Arabia?
(a) To purchase horses.
(b) To visit Mecca.
(c) To smoke tobacco.
(d) To discuss philosophy.

4. What does the author call the young man's condition of despair?
(a) Ironic.
(b) Fortunate.
(c) Propitious.
(d) Lively.

5. What does the author call the young man's intellectual capacities?
(a) Truly remarkable.
(b) Non-existant.
(c) Lacking.
(d) Beyond genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author claim the aesthetic is?

2. According to the author, of what can the mystic not be absolved?

3. What does the author say concerns the young man?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the advantages of the ethical theory of talent as opposed to the aesthetic theory of talent?

2. How may talent become a hindrance to the enjoyment of life, according to the author?

3. Briefly describe what the author means by the term Either/Or.

4. What does the author say the young man proposes is the definition of a hero? What does the author encourage the young man to suppose instead?

5. What "gift of grace" does the author say he would add to those listed in the bible?

6. What is the author's definition of the ethical?

7. How does the author define philosophy and what does he appreciate about it?

8. Describe the folktale about Roland's three squires.

9. What does the author dislike about philosophy?

10. What is the relationship between the ethical and the aesthetic?

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