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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 "humble view" does the author say he presents to the young man?
(a) What it is to hate and destroy.
(b) What it is to study and perform.
(c) What it is to prepare and debate.
(d) What it is to choose and repent.

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

3. According to the author, true marriage includes the religious and what other element?
(a) The erotic.
(b) The sacrilegious.
(c) The pure.
(d) The fated.

4. Which part of the wedding does the author find rather backward?
(a) The author thinks he ought to be able to have as many love affairs as he likes.
(b) The author thinks the man ought to wear the dress and the woman the tuxedo.
(c) The author thinks "as long as you both shall live" is a little extreme.
(d) The author thinks it incorrect that he is supposed to be in charge of his wife.

5. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?
(a) A quality of lameness.
(b) A quality of sexiness.
(c) A quality of duplexity.
(d) A quality of ephemerality.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author how does philosophy view history?

2. Into what two categories does the author say he can divide the difficulties in marriage?

3. What is the quality of marital love's movements?

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

5. Who is the only person who has gained everything according to the author?

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