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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 8, Equilibrium.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the quality of marital love's movements?
(a) Marital love's movements are inward.
(b) Marital love's movements are outward.
(c) Marital love's movements are quick.
(d) Marital love's movements are slow.

2. What is adversity according to the author?
(a) The beginning of a love affair.
(b) The death of marriage.
(c) Part of marriage.
(d) The end of one's life.

3. Why must a captain of a ship make swift decisions about direction changes?
(a) Because the captain's crew is rather inept.
(b) Because while the captain is deciding, the ship continues forward at a constant velocity.
(c) Because the captain constantly changes his mind.
(d) Because the captain's ship is old and takes along time to adjust its course.

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

5. What does first love not need according to the author?
(a) Fame.
(b) Support.
(c) Attention.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?

2. What happens to the person who profits by being secretive according to the author?

3. What does the author say the actual experience of love is?

4. What does the author say is the most intensive enjoyment?

5. What does the author say that the first love always is?

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