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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 does the author say God's love is?
(a) Indiscriminate.
(b) Understandable.
(c) Incomprehensible.
(d) Cruel.

2. What system does the author say he observed while he was a guest in the home of a young married couple?
(a) The Stanislavsky system.
(b) The secrecy system.
(c) The fairness system.
(d) The silent system.

3. Every coming into existence, according to the author, always has an element of what?
(a) Polemic.
(b) Flying.
(c) Caressing.
(d) Stepping back.

4. What character in opera does the author say embodies the state preceding love?
(a) Page in FIGARO.
(b) Wotan in THE RING CYCLE.
(c) Tristan in TRISTAN AND ISOLDE.
(d) Don Giovanni in DON GIOVANNI.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of love does the author say is momentary?

2. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?

3. What is the relationship between marriage and first love according to the author?

4. In what form is EITHER/OR written?

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

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