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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. How does the author describe a couple's connection in a marriage of convenience?
(a) The connection is immoral and fragile.
(b) The connection is safe but unrewarding.
(c) The connection is sexy and suffocating.
(d) The connection is moral but shallow.

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 held underwater, dying for a gasp of fresh air.
(c) Being tortured on the rack.
(d) The time one spends at the hair salon.

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

4. What does the author say is the defect of his era?
(a) Depression.
(b) Frivolity.
(c) Ambivalence.
(d) Facism.

5. What is the only thing for which the author prays to God with his whole heart?
(a) That God will give him the strength never to want to love another woman.
(b) That God will give him the strength to move on after his wife stops loving him.
(c) That God will give him the judgement to know when his wife is lying.
(d) That God will give him the patience to put up with his wife's nagging.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is "sympathetic" depression noble according to the author of the letter?

3. What does the author say God's love is?

4. What is the opening phrase of the work?

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

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