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

2. To what does the author of the letter compare the young man at the end of this section?
(a) The author compares the young man to an actor.
(b) The author compares the young man to the pilot of a ship.
(c) The author compares the young man to a bull rider.
(d) The author compares the young man to a blushing bride.

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

4. What does the author say can crush the aesthetic in a human being?
(a) Nothing can crush the aesthetic in a human being.
(b) A Man.
(c) An act of cruelty.
(d) A Woman.

5. What does the author say the actual experience of love is?
(a) A falling backward.
(b) A pretty song.
(c) An awakening.
(d) Deeply painful.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, true marriage includes the religious and what other element?

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

3. What aspect of love does the author say is momentary?

4. According to the author, what happens to the value of an original, or first, thing if it may be repeated?

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

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