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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 does first love not fear according to the author?
(a) Calamity.
(b) Lust.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Danger.

2. According to the author, what happens to the value of an original, or first, thing if it may be repeated?
(a) The value remains the same.
(b) The value decreases.
(c) The first thing never had any value.
(d) The value increases.

3. In discussing the the aesthetic of marriage, upon what does the author of the letter draw?
(a) The author draws on examples from his own marriage.
(b) The author draws on examples from Confucius's marriage.
(c) The author draws on invented examples of marriage.
(d) The author draws on examples from his friend's marriage.

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

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 heart is full of spiders.
(b) The insane man has the idea that his apartment is full of flies.
(c) The insane man has the idea that his mattress is full of butterflies.
(d) The insane man has the idea that his veins are filled with oil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say is the most intensive enjoyment?

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

3. What is the only thing for which the author thanks God with his whole soul?

4. What does the author believe accounts for the young man's excessive anxiety?

5. According to the author, true marriage includes the religious and what other element?

(see the answer key)

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