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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. In addition to having a priority in itself, what other quality does marital love possess according to the author?
(a) Constancy.
(b) Uncertainty.
(c) Profligacy.
(d) Ephemerality.

2. What creature sends the author into "reverie"?
(a) The tiger.
(b) The elephant.
(c) The catfish.
(d) The jellyfish.

3. What does the author say is the most intensive enjoyment?
(a) Drug taking.
(b) Clutching the enjoyment in the consciousness that it may vanish in the next moment.
(c) Sexual intercourse.
(d) Dreaming as if you would live forever.

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

5. What does the author say first love is for him?
(a) A catch phrase.
(b) A good word.
(c) A bad word.
(d) A password.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what two things is first love a unity?

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

3. Between what two types of doubt does the author say it is important to distinguish?

4. How ought we deal with the frail according to the author?

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

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