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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 4, Aesthetic Validity of Marriage.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what does the author compare the engagement period?
(a) Being held underwater, dying for a gasp of fresh air.
(b) Being tortured on the rack.
(c) The time it takes many people to dive into the water when they go swimming.
(d) The time one spends at the hair salon.

3. What is the author's stated attitude toward these feelings?
(a) The author writes that the feelings are entirely natural.
(b) The author writes that the feelings are aberrant.
(c) The author writes that the feelings are the best kind of feelings.
(d) The author writes that the feelings are disturbing.

4. How ought we deal with the frail according to the author?
(a) We ought to speak very slowly to the frail.
(b) We ought to be polite to the frail in their presence and save our snickering for when they are gone.
(c) We ought to deal with the frail lovingly.
(d) We ought to kick the frail down the stairs.

5. According to the author of the letter, to what does a religious person refer everything?
(a) Nature.
(b) Satan.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say that every order of life, including marriage, has?

2. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?

3. To what kind of wedding ceremony does the author of the letter refer?

4. What effect does giving of thanks have on first love?

5. What is ostensibly one of the most respectable reasons for getting married according to the author?

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