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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 4, Aesthetic Validity of Marriage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the author accustomed to writing on this particular object?
(a) Because he is blind.
(b) Because he lives in ancient Egypt.
(c) Because he is a public official.
(d) Because he lives in modern India.

2. What does the author say the young man he is writing to wants to be?
(a) A pig.
(b) An archangel.
(c) A priest.
(d) Fate.

3. According to the author of the letter, to what does a religious person refer everything?
(a) God.
(b) Nature.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) Satan.

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

5. What is David unable to appreciate about the parable?
(a) David is unable to appreciate Nathan's literary skill.
(b) David is unable to appreciate the hidden language of heaven in the parable.
(c) David is unable to appreciate the time Nathan takes to convey the parable.
(d) David is unable to appreciate how the parable applies to his own life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author assert reflective love does?

2. What creature sends the author into "reverie"?

3. In what form is EITHER/OR written?

4. How does the author say the young man may best perceive the state that precedes first love?

5. What is the first subject Kierkegaard discusses?

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