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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. What is love according to the author?
(a) Cruel.
(b) Selfish.
(c) Elusive.
(d) Self-giving.

2. What does the author say can crush the aesthetic in a human being?
(a) Nothing can crush the aesthetic in a human being.
(b) A Woman.
(c) An act of cruelty.
(d) A Man.

3. What does an individual become when his heart is open according to the author?
(a) Merciful.
(b) Eloquent.
(c) Vengeful.
(d) Inarticulate.

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

5. What is the middle course that the "marriage of convenience" takes according to the author?
(a) The middle course is the path between comfort and tribulation.
(b) The middle course is the path between immediate love, and calculating understanding.
(c) The middle course is the path between love and hate.
(d) The middle course is the path between youth and maturity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has lost himself in another according to the author?

2. How does the author describe a couple's connection in a marriage of convenience?

3. When discussing adversity with the young man, against what does the author warn?

4. What moment does the newly married couple attempt to postpone?

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

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