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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 5, Aesthetic Validity of Marriage.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the author of the letter accustomed to writing on?
(a) Parchment.
(b) Papyrus.
(c) Full sheets.
(d) Tablets of stone.

3. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?
(a) A quality of lameness.
(b) A quality of sexiness.
(c) A quality of duplexity.
(d) A quality of ephemerality.

4. 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.

5. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?
(a) Love is false and marriage is true.
(b) Love torment and marriage is peace.
(c) Love is irrelevant and marriage is significant.
(d) Love is heaven and marriage is hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?

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

3. Of what two things is first love a unity?

4. What moment does the newly married couple attempt to postpone?

5. What one word does the author say can describe love?

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