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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. Who is the only person who has gained everything according to the author?
(a) The person who has laughed at the faults of another.
(b) The person who has laughed at his faults.
(c) The person who has gained everything in the world.
(d) The person who has lost everything in the world.
2. What are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?
(a) Drinking and drug taking.
(b) Praying all day and all night.
(c) Attempting to help every person they come across.
(d) Self-tormenting and annihilation of the physical.
3. Which part of the wedding does the author find rather backward?
(a) The author thinks "as long as you both shall live" is a little extreme.
(b) The author thinks he ought to be able to have as many love affairs as he likes.
(c) The author thinks the man ought to wear the dress and the woman the tuxedo.
(d) The author thinks it incorrect that he is supposed to be in charge of his wife.
4. Between what two types of doubt does the author say it is important to distinguish?
(a) Temporal and eternal doubt.
(b) Personal and scientific doubt.
(c) No doubt and full doubt.
(d) Religious and erotic doubt.
5. In addition to having a priority in itself, what other quality does marital love possess according to the author?
(a) Constancy.
(b) Profligacy.
(c) Ephemerality.
(d) Uncertainty.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is ostensibly one of the most respectable reasons for getting married according to the author?
2. According to the author of the letter, to what does a religious person refer everything?
3. What is the relationship between marriage and first love according to the author?
4. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?
5. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?
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