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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Either/Or : Chapter 13, Ultimatum and.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author write is on the other side of the aesthetic?
(a) The hateful.
(b) The indifferent.
(c) The romantic.
(d) The joyous.

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

3. What kind of message does the Holy Spirit bring to the Chosen People?
(a) A message of repudiation.
(b) A message of congratulations.
(c) A message of support.
(d) A message of hate.

4. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?
(a) Love is false and marriage is true.
(b) Love is heaven and marriage is hell.
(c) Love is irrelevant and marriage is significant.
(d) Love torment and marriage is peace.

5. What does the author say art and poetry do for us?
(a) Art and poetry delight us in the moment of consummation.
(b) Art and poetry amaze us with the complexity of their construction.
(c) Art and poetry bore most of us to tears.
(d) Art and poetry torture us with their beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occasion caused the young man to fume according to the author?

2. Why does the author suggest the young man may be "depressed" and fear marriage?

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

4. What is love according to the author?

5. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?

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