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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 are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?
(a) Drinking and drug taking.
(b) Self-tormenting and annihilation of the physical.
(c) Attempting to help every person they come across.
(d) Praying all day and all night.

2. What does the author assert reflective love does?
(a) Renews itself.
(b) Hates itself.
(c) Consumes itself.
(d) The author asserts reflective love does not exist.

3. What does first love not need according to the author?
(a) Attention.
(b) Fame.
(c) Support.
(d) Money.

4. What does the author say his era has discerned about romantic love very well?
(a) The non-existence of it.
(b) The weakness of it.
(c) The fleeting quality of it.
(d) The strength of it.

5. What is the opening phrase of the work?
(a) "Red Fox to Chrome Eagle:".
(b) "Ladies and Gentlemen,".
(c) "Dear Friend,".
(d) "Hey, guy,".

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author say the young man lives?

2. At what moment is love annihilated according to the author?

3. What system does the author say he observed while he was a guest in the home of a young married couple?

4. What is the second subject Kierkegaard examines?

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

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