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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 the author assert reflective love does?
(a) Hates itself.
(b) Consumes itself.
(c) Renews itself.
(d) The author asserts reflective love does not exist.

2. What does the author say his era has discerned about romantic love very well?
(a) The fleeting quality of it.
(b) The strength of it.
(c) The weakness of it.
(d) The non-existence of it.

3. Wherein is contained the whole wisdom of life according to the author?
(a) In sensual pleasure.
(b) In marital commitment.
(c) In religious duty.
(d) In Either/Or.

4. How does the author describe a couple's connection in a marriage of convenience?
(a) The connection is immoral and fragile.
(b) The connection is moral but shallow.
(c) The connection is sexy and suffocating.
(d) The connection is safe but unrewarding.

5. 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 value remains the same.
(d) The first thing never had any value.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author asserts that it might seem proper for marital love to begin with a kind of what?

3. What does Either/Or represent?

4. What does the author say that the young man thinks life is?

5. To what religion does the author say marriage belongs?

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