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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 6, Aesthetic Validity of Marriage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say can crush the aesthetic in a human being?
(a) Nothing can crush the aesthetic in a human being.
(b) A Man.
(c) An act of cruelty.
(d) A Woman.

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

3. To what religion does the author say marriage belongs?
(a) Islam.
(b) Hinduism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Buddhism.

4. What does the author say would be a matter of indifference to Christians?
(a) Whether Christ was literally an incarnation of almighty God.
(b) Whether Christ was ugly or handsome.
(c) Whether Christ was born in December or July.
(d) Whether Christ physically rose from the dead.

5. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?
(a) The eternal.
(b) The cruel.
(c) The temporal.
(d) The erotic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say is the most intensive enjoyment?

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

3. What one word does the author say can describe love?

4. According to the author, an esthetically beautiful marriage is always a what?

5. What are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?

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