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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 religion does the author say marriage belongs?
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Islam.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Christianity.

2. What does the author say is the most intensive enjoyment?
(a) Drug taking.
(b) Clutching the enjoyment in the consciousness that it may vanish in the next moment.
(c) Dreaming as if you would live forever.
(d) Sexual intercourse.

3. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?
(a) A quality of sexiness.
(b) A quality of ephemerality.
(c) A quality of lameness.
(d) A quality of duplexity.

4. According to the author of the letter, to what does a religious person refer everything?
(a) God.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) Nature.
(d) Satan.

5. At what moment is love annihilated according to the author?
(a) The moment it becomes hate.
(b) The moment it becomes conscious of itself.
(c) The moment it sins.
(d) The moment it doubts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author say has triumphed?

2. What creature sends the author into "reverie"?

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

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

5. What does the author say his era has discerned about romantic love very well?

(see the answer key)

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