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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 11, Equilibrium - Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author say cannot survive in the young man's thought?
(a) Ethics.
(b) Morals.
(c) The finite.
(d) The infinite.

3. According to the author, true marriage includes the religious and what other element?
(a) The fated.
(b) The erotic.
(c) The pure.
(d) The sacrilegious.

4. To what does the author of the letter compare the young man at the end of this section?
(a) The author compares the young man to the pilot of a ship.
(b) The author compares the young man to a bull rider.
(c) The author compares the young man to a blushing bride.
(d) The author compares the young man to an actor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what happens to the value of an original, or first, thing if it may be repeated?

2. What is the author of the letter accustomed to writing on?

3. What does the author assert reflective love does?

4. To what does the author compare the engagement period?

5. To what does he assert he sacrifices his life?

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