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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. The author asserts that it might seem proper for marital love to begin with a kind of what?
(a) Romance.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Enthusiasm.

2. What is the first subject Kierkegaard discusses?
(a) Passion.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Friendship.

3. The author asserts that just as nothing is impossible for God, nothing is impossible for whom?
(a) The powerful individual.
(b) The religious individual.
(c) The humble individual.
(d) The pure individual.

4. What is the only thing for which the author thanks God with his whole soul?
(a) That his wife loves him with all her heart.
(b) That his wife is the last person he will ever love.
(c) That his wife has many hobbies which keep her occupied.
(d) That his wife is the only woman he has ever loved.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between marriage and first love according to the author?

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

3. In what form is EITHER/OR written?

4. What is the middle course that the "marriage of convenience" takes according to the author?

5. How does the author say the young man lives?

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