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

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

3. From whom does King David hear a parable?
(a) The prophet Nathan.
(b) The prophet Habbakuk.
(c) The prophet Ezra.
(d) The prophet Joel.

4. What is the only thing for which the author thanks God with his whole soul?
(a) That his wife loves him with all her heart.
(b) That his wife is the last person he will ever love.
(c) That his wife has many hobbies which keep her occupied.
(d) That his wife is the only woman he has ever loved.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asserts that it might seem proper for marital love to begin with a kind of what?

2. What does the author assert reflective love does?

3. To whom does the author compare the young man when he is ill-tempered?

4. What is the first subject Kierkegaard discusses?

5. According to the author of the letter, to what does a religious person refer everything?

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