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

2. What is the second subject Kierkegaard examines?
(a) Messages from yourself.
(b) Messages in bottles.
(c) Messages from distant cousins.
(d) Messages from God.

3. What is ostensibly one of the most respectable reasons for getting married according to the author?
(a) To enoble one's character.
(b) There is no respectable reason for getting married.
(c) To do penance.
(d) To test one's patience.

4. From who does the author say the secrecy system generally comes?
(a) The priests.
(b) The men.
(c) The parents.
(d) The women.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the author's stated attitude toward these feelings?

3. What effect does giving of thanks have on first love?

4. What does the author say romantic love is built on?

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

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