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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 6, Aesthetic Validity of Marriage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When discussing adversity with the young man, against what does the author warn?
(a) Thoughtlessness.
(b) Promiscuity.
(c) Arbitrariness.
(d) Eccentricity.

2. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?
(a) Love is irrelevant and marriage is significant.
(b) Love torment and marriage is peace.
(c) Love is heaven and marriage is hell.
(d) Love is false and marriage is true.

3. What is the quality of marital love's movements?
(a) Marital love's movements are outward.
(b) Marital love's movements are quick.
(c) Marital love's movements are slow.
(d) Marital love's movements are inward.

4. What is the only thing for which the author prays to God with his whole heart?
(a) That God will give him the judgement to know when his wife is lying.
(b) That God will give him the strength to move on after his wife stops loving him.
(c) That God will give him the strength never to want to love another woman.
(d) That God will give him the patience to put up with his wife's nagging.

5. How does the author say the young man may best perceive the state that precedes first love?
(a) By recalling that love makes one feel quite good.
(b) By recalling that love makes one fly.
(c) By recalling that love makes one lost.
(d) By recalling that love makes one blind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between what two things does the writer say there may exist a significant difference?

2. To what religion does the author say marriage belongs?

3. What is love according to the author?

4. What are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?

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

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