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

2. How does the author describe a couple's connection in a marriage of convenience?
(a) The connection is sexy and suffocating.
(b) The connection is immoral and fragile.
(c) The connection is safe but unrewarding.
(d) The connection is moral but shallow.

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

4. According to the author, true marriage includes the religious and what other element?
(a) The pure.
(b) The erotic.
(c) The sacrilegious.
(d) The fated.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea does the insane man, of whom the author writes, have fixed in his head?

2. What is the quality of marital love's movements?

3. What does the author say first love is for him?

4. What creature sends the author into "reverie"?

5. What occasion caused the young man to fume according to the author?

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