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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. How does the author say the young man lives?
(a) The author says the young man lives by plundering.
(b) The author says the young man lives by creeping up unnoticed on people.
(c) The author says the young man lives by stealing happy moments.
(d) All of these.

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

3. What is the second subject Kierkegaard examines?
(a) Messages in bottles.
(b) Messages from yourself.
(c) Messages from distant cousins.
(d) Messages from God.

4. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?
(a) The temporal.
(b) The eternal.
(c) The cruel.
(d) The erotic.

5. What does the author say romantic love is built on?
(a) An illusion.
(b) An ocean.
(c) An undeniable reality.
(d) A rock.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?

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

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

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