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

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 the haughty and vain have.
(c) The type of faith the poor have.
(d) The type of faith that believes itself capable of moving mountains.

3. Who does Kirkegaard explain the letter was intended for?
(a) Bathsheba.
(b) A young man.
(c) Joel.
(d) Nathan.

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

5. Why does the author suggest the young man may be "depressed" and fear marriage?
(a) The young man may be thinking, "Everything may change; what if this person that now I almost worship may change; what if, what if, etc."
(b) The young man's parents were unhappy in their marriage and abused him all his life.
(c) Perhaps the young man has not been taking his medication.
(d) The young man may be thinking, "She doesn't really love me; all love is false."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?

2. What does the author say the actual experience of love is?

3. What does the author say would be a matter of indifference to Christians?

4. Every coming into existence, according to the author, always has an element of what?

5. How is it said that married folk should live according to the author?

(see the answer key)

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