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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 8, Equilibrium.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?
(a) Love torment and marriage is peace.
(b) Love is irrelevant and marriage is significant.
(c) Love is false and marriage is true.
(d) Love is heaven and marriage is hell.

2. What does the author say happens to people who deceive others for an extended period?
(a) Such people become unable to show their true natures.
(b) Such people become dim-witted.
(c) Such people get elected to public office.
(d) Such people live ever more happily.

3. Of what two things is first love a unity?
(a) Passion and indifference.
(b) Freedom and necessity.
(c) Love and hate.
(d) Hot and cold.

4. According to the author, what happens to the value of an original, or first, thing if it may be repeated?
(a) The value decreases.
(b) The value increases.
(c) The first thing never had any value.
(d) The value remains the same.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say would be a matter of indifference to Christians?

2. To what does the author compare the engagement period?

3. Where does the author say the young man might be intoxicated by aesthetic pleasure?

4. What moment does the newly married couple attempt to postpone?

5. Who is the only person who has gained everything according to the author?

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