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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. Every coming into existence, according to the author, always has an element of what?
(a) Stepping back.
(b) Caressing.
(c) Flying.
(d) Polemic.

2. What aspect of love does the author say is momentary?
(a) The romantic aspect.
(b) The hateful aspect.
(c) The tender aspect.
(d) The sensuous aspect.

3. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?
(a) By being a process of history.
(b) By being a process of dominating.
(c) By being a process of destroying.
(d) By being a process of assimilation.

4. What does first love not need according to the author?
(a) Attention.
(b) Support.
(c) Money.
(d) Fame.

5. The author asserts that it might seem proper for marital love to begin with a kind of what?
(a) Enthusiasm.
(b) Romance.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Indifference.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what form is EITHER/OR written?

2. What does first love not fear according to the author?

3. What does the author believe accounts for the young man's excessive anxiety?

4. Why is "sympathetic" depression noble according to the author of the letter?

5. What is the reader to understand about the content of Kierkegaard's letter?

(see the answer key)

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