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

2. What character in opera does the author say embodies the state preceding love?
(a) Don Giovanni in DON GIOVANNI.
(b) Tristan in TRISTAN AND ISOLDE.
(c) Page in FIGARO.
(d) Wotan in THE RING CYCLE.

3. In what form is EITHER/OR written?
(a) In the form of a casual conversation.
(b) In the form of a code.
(c) In the form of an epistle.
(d) In the form of a lecture.

4. What does the author say the young man he is writing to wants to be?
(a) An archangel.
(b) Fate.
(c) A pig.
(d) A priest.

5. What aspect of love does the author say is momentary?
(a) The sensuous aspect.
(b) The hateful aspect.
(c) The tender aspect.
(d) The romantic aspect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say the actual experience of love is?

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

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

4. What one word does the author say can describe love?

5. How does the author describe a couple's connection in a marriage of convenience?

(see the answer key)

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