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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. According to the author, what is the lifeblood of marriage?
(a) Frankness.
(b) Uprightness.
(c) Openness on a large scale.
(d) All of these.

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

3. Why does the author suggest the young man may be "depressed" and fear marriage?
(a) The young man may be thinking, "She doesn't really love me; all love is false."
(b) Perhaps the young man has not been taking his medication.
(c) The young man may be thinking, "Everything may change; what if this person that now I almost worship may change; what if, what if, etc."
(d) The young man's parents were unhappy in their marriage and abused him all his life.

4. Of what two things is first love a unity?
(a) Freedom and necessity.
(b) Passion and indifference.
(c) Love and hate.
(d) Hot and cold.

5. What idea does the insane man, of whom the author writes, have fixed in his head?
(a) The insane man has the idea that his apartment is full of flies.
(b) The insane man has the idea that his veins are filled with oil.
(c) The insane man has the idea that his mattress is full of butterflies.
(d) The insane man has the idea that his heart is full of spiders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the author accustomed to writing on this particular object?

2. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?

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

4. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?

5. From whom does King David hear a parable?

(see the answer key)

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