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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 3, Aesthetic Validation of Marriage - First Love.

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) Enthusiasm.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Doubt.

2. To what religion does the author say marriage belongs?
(a) Islam.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Hinduism.

3. What aspect of love does the author say is momentary?
(a) The hateful aspect.
(b) The romantic aspect.
(c) The tender aspect.
(d) The sensuous aspect.

4. What are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?
(a) Drinking and drug taking.
(b) Praying all day and all night.
(c) Attempting to help every person they come across.
(d) Self-tormenting and annihilation of the physical.

5. In what form is EITHER/OR written?
(a) In the form of an epistle.
(b) In the form of a lecture.
(c) In the form of a casual conversation.
(d) In the form of a code.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say is the defect of his era?

2. According to the author of the letter, to what does a religious person refer everything?

3. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?

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

5. From whom does King David hear a parable?

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