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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. How does the author say the young man may best perceive the state that precedes first love?
(a) By recalling that love makes one feel quite good.
(b) By recalling that love makes one lost.
(c) By recalling that love makes one fly.
(d) By recalling that love makes one blind.

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

3. What does the author say is the defect of his era?
(a) Ambivalence.
(b) Depression.
(c) Facism.
(d) Frivolity.

4. What is ostensibly one of the most respectable reasons for getting married according to the author?
(a) To do penance.
(b) To test one's patience.
(c) There is no respectable reason for getting married.
(d) To enoble one's character.

5. What is the only thing for which the author prays to God with his whole heart?
(a) That God will give him the judgement to know when his wife is lying.
(b) That God will give him the patience to put up with his wife's nagging.
(c) That God will give him the strength to move on after his wife stops loving him.
(d) That God will give him the strength never to want to love another woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between what two things does the writer say there may exist a significant difference?

2. What does the author say God's love is?

3. According to the author, what happens to the value of an original, or first, thing if it may be repeated?

4. What is the middle course that the "marriage of convenience" takes according to the author?

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

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