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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 2, Aesthetic Validity of Marriage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the author suggest the young man may be "depressed" and fear marriage?
(a) Perhaps the young man has not been taking his medication.
(b) The young man may be thinking, "She doesn't really love me; all love is false."
(c) The young man's parents were unhappy in their marriage and abused him all his life.
(d) 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."

2. To what does the author compare the engagement period?
(a) The time it takes many people to dive into the water when they go swimming.
(b) Being tortured on the rack.
(c) The time one spends at the hair salon.
(d) Being held underwater, dying for a gasp of fresh air.

3. Who does Kirkegaard explain the letter was intended for?
(a) Nathan.
(b) A young man.
(c) Joel.
(d) Bathsheba.

4. What does the author say that every order of life, including marriage, has?
(a) Workers.
(b) Plebeians.
(c) Paragons.
(d) Traitors.

5. Why is "sympathetic" depression noble according to the author of the letter?
(a) The author has proclaimed it!
(b) "Sympathetic" depression is for the sake of another.
(c) "Sympathetic" depression is highly attractive in a young man.
(d) "Sympathetic" depression is the depression of the landed gentry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second subject Kierkegaard examines?

2. What does David understand about the parable?

3. What does the author say the young man he is writing to wants to be?

4. What does the author say his era has discerned about romantic love very well?

5. What is David unable to appreciate about the parable?

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