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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. Why is "sympathetic" depression noble according to the author of the letter?
(a) The author has proclaimed it!
(b) "Sympathetic" depression is highly attractive in a young man.
(c) "Sympathetic" depression is the depression of the landed gentry.
(d) "Sympathetic" depression is for the sake of another.

2. First love is equivalent to what type of faith according to the author?
(a) The type of faith that believes there has never been anything but itself.
(b) The type of faith that believes itself capable of moving mountains.
(c) The type of faith the poor have.
(d) The type of faith the haughty and vain have.

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

4. What is the middle course that the "marriage of convenience" takes according to the author?
(a) The middle course is the path between immediate love, and calculating understanding.
(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 comfort and tribulation.

5. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?
(a) The erotic.
(b) The temporal.
(c) The cruel.
(d) The eternal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe a couple's connection in a marriage of convenience?

2. What does the author say that the first love always is?

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

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

5. What does first love not fear according to the author?

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