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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 11, Equilibrium - Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What occasion caused the young man to fume according to the author?
(a) A church wedding.
(b) A funeral.
(c) A birthday party.
(d) A Mayday party.

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

5. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?
(a) By being a process of history.
(b) By being a process of assimilation.
(c) By being a process of dominating.
(d) By being a process of destroying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only one who has a true conception of who he is according to the author?

2. In discussing the the aesthetic of marriage, upon what does the author of the letter draw?

3. What does the author believe accounts for the young man's excessive anxiety?

4. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?

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

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