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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. The author asserts that just as nothing is impossible for God, nothing is impossible for whom?
(a) The powerful individual.
(b) The humble individual.
(c) The pure individual.
(d) The religious individual.

2. According to the author, what happens to the value of an original, or first, thing if it may be repeated?
(a) The first thing never had any value.
(b) The value decreases.
(c) The value increases.
(d) The value remains the same.

3. What does the author say is the defect of his era?
(a) Frivolity.
(b) Depression.
(c) Facism.
(d) Ambivalence.

4. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?
(a) By being a process of history.
(b) By being a process of dominating.
(c) By being a process of destroying.
(d) By being a process of assimilation.

5. How does the author say the young man lives?
(a) All of these.
(b) The author says the young man lives by creeping up unnoticed on people.
(c) The author says the young man lives by stealing happy moments.
(d) The author says the young man lives by plundering.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author say is the most intensive enjoyment?

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

4. Who does Kirkegaard explain the letter was intended for?

5. Between what two types of doubt does the author say it is important to distinguish?

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