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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. To what does the author compare the engagement period?
(a) The time it takes many people to dive into the water when they go swimming.
(b) The time one spends at the hair salon.
(c) Being tortured on the rack.
(d) Being held underwater, dying for a gasp of fresh air.

2. To whom does the author compare the young man when he is ill-tempered?
(a) King David.
(b) Mohammed.
(c) Herod.
(d) Pontius Pilate.

3. In what form is EITHER/OR written?
(a) In the form of a code.
(b) In the form of a lecture.
(c) In the form of an epistle.
(d) In the form of a casual conversation.

4. Of what two things is first love a unity?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Freedom and necessity.
(c) Hot and cold.
(d) Passion and indifference.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From who does the author say the secrecy system generally comes?

2. According to the author of the letter, to what does a religious person refer everything?

3. The author asserts that it might seem proper for marital love to begin with a kind of what?

4. What does the author say can crush the aesthetic in a human being?

5. Who does Kirkegaard explain the letter was intended for?

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