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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 5, Aesthetic Validity of Marriage.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does David understand about the parable?
(a) David understands Nathan is merely trying to manipulate him.
(b) David understands the message of the parable.
(c) David does not understand the parable at all.
(d) David understands how the parable applies to him.
2. How does the author describe a couple's connection in a marriage of convenience?
(a) The connection is moral but shallow.
(b) The connection is safe but unrewarding.
(c) The connection is immoral and fragile.
(d) The connection is sexy and suffocating.
3. According to the author, what happens to the value of an original, or first, thing if it may be repeated?
(a) The first thing never had any value.
(b) The value remains the same.
(c) The value decreases.
(d) The value increases.
4. Why is "sympathetic" depression noble according to the author of the letter?
(a) "Sympathetic" depression is for the sake of another.
(b) "Sympathetic" depression is highly attractive in a young man.
(c) The author has proclaimed it!
(d) "Sympathetic" depression is the depression of the landed gentry.
5. The author asserts that it might seem proper for marital love to begin with a kind of what?
(a) Romance.
(b) Enthusiasm.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Indifference.
Short Answer Questions
1. In discussing the the aesthetic of marriage, upon what does the author of the letter draw?
2. What idea does the insane man, of whom the author writes, have fixed in his head?
3. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?
4. What is the quality of marital love's movements?
5. What system does the author say he observed while he was a guest in the home of a young married couple?
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