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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 4, Aesthetic Validity of Marriage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only thing for which the author thanks God with his whole soul?
(a) That his wife is the only woman he has ever loved.
(b) That his wife has many hobbies which keep her occupied.
(c) That his wife loves him with all her heart.
(d) That his wife is the last person he will ever love.

2. What is the author's stated attitude toward these feelings?
(a) The author writes that the feelings are entirely natural.
(b) The author writes that the feelings are disturbing.
(c) The author writes that the feelings are the best kind of feelings.
(d) The author writes that the feelings are aberrant.

3. What effect does giving of thanks have on first love?
(a) Giving of thanks decreases first love.
(b) Giving of thanks augments first love.
(c) Giving of thanks changes first love to hatred.
(d) Giving of thanks has no effect on first love.

4. What does the author say romantic love is built on?
(a) An ocean.
(b) A rock.
(c) An illusion.
(d) An undeniable reality.

5. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?
(a) By being a process of history.
(b) By being a process of dominating.
(c) By being a process of destroying.
(d) By being a process of assimilation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What creature sends the author into "reverie"?

2. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?

3. In discussing the the aesthetic of marriage, upon what does the author of the letter draw?

4. What does the author assert reflective love does?

5. According to the author, true marriage includes the religious and what other element?

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