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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 9, Equilibrium.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say the actual experience of love is?
(a) An awakening.
(b) Deeply painful.
(c) A pretty song.
(d) A falling backward.

2. What does the author say the young man he is writing to wants to be?
(a) A pig.
(b) A priest.
(c) An archangel.
(d) Fate.

3. In discussing the the aesthetic of marriage, upon what does the author of the letter draw?
(a) The author draws on examples from his friend's marriage.
(b) The author draws on examples from his own marriage.
(c) The author draws on invented examples of marriage.
(d) The author draws on examples from Confucius's marriage.

4. According to the author, what is the lifeblood of marriage?
(a) All of these.
(b) Uprightness.
(c) Openness on a large scale.
(d) Frankness.

5. What is the one the thing the author says he thanks God for?
(a) The extraordinary refinement of his tastes.
(b) The clarity of his vision.
(c) The imperturbability of his soul.
(d) The mutability of his humor.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does he assert he sacrifices his life?

2. The author claims what kind of feelings toward his wife?

3. What does the author say that every order of life, including marriage, has?

4. What does the author say one must transform to preserve the aesthetic in human beings?

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

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