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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 one word does the author say can describe love?
(a) It is light.
(b) It is futile.
(c) It is immediate.
(d) It is excruciating.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what form is EITHER/OR written?

3. What does the author say romantic love is built on?

4. From whom does King David hear a parable?

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

(see the answer key)

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