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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. What is the middle course that the "marriage of convenience" takes according to the author?
(a) The middle course is the path between love and hate.
(b) The middle course is the path between immediate love, and calculating understanding.
(c) The middle course is the path between comfort and tribulation.
(d) The middle course is the path between youth and maturity.

2. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?
(a) The temporal.
(b) The erotic.
(c) The eternal.
(d) The cruel.

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 invented examples of marriage.
(c) The author draws on examples from his friend's marriage.
(d) The author draws on examples from Confucius's marriage.

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

5. What does the author say romantic love is built on?
(a) An illusion.
(b) A rock.
(c) An undeniable reality.
(d) An ocean.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the opening phrase of the work?

3. Why is the author accustomed to writing on this particular object?

4. What is the only thing for which the author prays to God with his whole heart?

5. What does the author assert reflective love does?

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