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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 does the author say God's love is?
(a) Indiscriminate.
(b) Incomprehensible.
(c) Cruel.
(d) Understandable.

2. What does David understand about the parable?
(a) David does not understand the parable at all.
(b) David understands Nathan is merely trying to manipulate him.
(c) David understands how the parable applies to him.
(d) David understands the message of the parable.

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

4. What does the author say is the most intensive enjoyment?
(a) Drug taking.
(b) Dreaming as if you would live forever.
(c) Sexual intercourse.
(d) Clutching the enjoyment in the consciousness that it may vanish in the next moment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only thing for which the author thanks God with his whole soul?

2. In discussing the the aesthetic of marriage, upon what does the author of the letter draw?

3. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?

4. The author asserts that it might seem proper for marital love to begin with a kind of what?

5. What is the author of the letter accustomed to writing on?

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