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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. What is the second subject Kierkegaard examines?
(a) Messages from God.
(b) Messages from yourself.
(c) Messages in bottles.
(d) Messages from distant cousins.

2. What is the reader to understand about the content of Kierkegaard's letter?
(a) The reader is to understand that the contents of the letter apply to Kierkegaard's wife.
(b) The reader is to understand that the contents of the letter apply to the prophet Nathan.
(c) The reader is to understand that the contents of the letter apply to the reader himself and not to another.
(d) The reader is to understand that the contents of the letter apply to King David.

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

4. To what does the author of the letter compare the young man at the end of this section?
(a) The author compares the young man to an actor.
(b) The author compares the young man to a blushing bride.
(c) The author compares the young man to the pilot of a ship.
(d) The author compares the young man to a bull rider.

5. What does the author say would be a matter of indifference to Christians?
(a) Whether Christ was ugly or handsome.
(b) Whether Christ was born in December or July.
(c) Whether Christ was literally an incarnation of almighty God.
(d) Whether Christ physically rose from the dead.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the author say the young man may best perceive the state that precedes first love?

3. What one word does the author say can describe love?

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

5. At what moment is love annihilated according to the author?

(see the answer key)

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