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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only thing for which the author thanks God with his whole soul?

2. What one word does the author say can describe love?

3. What does the author say would be a matter of indifference to Christians?

4. Who has lost himself in another according to the author?

5. What does the author say is the defect of his era?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe romantic love?

2. Why does the author say that first love is found more frequently in women than men?

3. Describe the fantasy marriage the author proposes to the young man.

4. What does the author write is "unhappy love?"

5. What does the author write about egotistic depression?

6. Why are erotic love and marriage irreconcilable according to the author?

7. How is first love the unification of freedom and necessity?

8. Describe what the author writes are the necessary inward conditions for marriage?

9. What does the author say to the suggestion that the wedding ceremony "halts lovers"?

10. Why does the author write that marriage belongs to Christianity?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author writes of a folktale concerning Roland's three squires. Recount the tale and discuss its relationship to the concept of Either/Or citing specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

What is the attitude of the author of the letter towards marriage? What does the author see as the principle purpose of marriage? What mental attitudes does the author indicate work against marriage? How may these be overcome? Discuss citing specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

The final chapter of EITHER/OR takes the form of a sermon? How does this form serve the author's intentions? How does it limit him? What other form might the final chapter have taken? How would that change the effect of the book for better or worse? Cite specific examples from the text to support your position.

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