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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 is the quality of marital love's movements?
(a) Marital love's movements are slow.
(b) Marital love's movements are inward.
(c) Marital love's movements are quick.
(d) Marital love's movements are outward.

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

3. Into what two categories does the author say he can divide the difficulties in marriage?
(a) Serious and trivial.
(b) Inner and outer.
(c) Sweet and bitter.
(d) Kind and cruel.

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

5. From who does the author say the secrecy system generally comes?
(a) The parents.
(b) The priests.
(c) The men.
(d) The women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between what two things does the writer say there may exist a significant difference?

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

3. What is adversity according to the author?

4. What is the second subject Kierkegaard examines?

5. What idea does the insane man, of whom the author writes, have fixed in his head?

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