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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 2, Aesthetic Validity of Marriage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author say the young man lives?
(a) All of these.
(b) The author says the young man lives by stealing happy moments.
(c) The author says the young man lives by plundering.
(d) The author says the young man lives by creeping up unnoticed on people.

2. From whom does King David hear a parable?
(a) The prophet Joel.
(b) The prophet Habbakuk.
(c) The prophet Nathan.
(d) The prophet Ezra.

3. What does the author say that every order of life, including marriage, has?
(a) Plebeians.
(b) Traitors.
(c) Workers.
(d) Paragons.

4. The author asserts that it might seem proper for marital love to begin with a kind of what?
(a) Enthusiasm.
(b) Romance.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Doubt.

5. What is David unable to appreciate about the parable?
(a) David is unable to appreciate the time Nathan takes to convey the parable.
(b) David is unable to appreciate Nathan's literary skill.
(c) David is unable to appreciate the hidden language of heaven in the parable.
(d) David is unable to appreciate how the parable applies to his own life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first subject Kierkegaard discusses?

2. Why is the author accustomed to writing on this particular object?

3. What is the relationship between marriage and first love according to the author?

4. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?

5. What is the opening phrase of the work?

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