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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. What does the author say is the most intensive enjoyment?
(a) Dreaming as if you would live forever.
(b) Drug taking.
(c) Sexual intercourse.
(d) Clutching the enjoyment in the consciousness that it may vanish in the next moment.

2. What does the author say would be a matter of indifference to Christians?
(a) Whether Christ was born in December or July.
(b) Whether Christ physically rose from the dead.
(c) Whether Christ was literally an incarnation of almighty God.
(d) Whether Christ was ugly or handsome.

3. What does the author say God's love is?
(a) Incomprehensible.
(b) Understandable.
(c) Indiscriminate.
(d) Cruel.

4. What is ostensibly one of the most respectable reasons for getting married according to the author?
(a) To test one's patience.
(b) There is no respectable reason for getting married.
(c) To enoble one's character.
(d) To do penance.

5. First love is equivalent to what type of faith according to the author?
(a) The type of faith the poor have.
(b) The type of faith that believes there has never been anything but itself.
(c) The type of faith that believes itself capable of moving mountains.
(d) The type of faith the haughty and vain have.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author assert reflective love does?

2. What idea does the insane man, of whom the author writes, have fixed in his head?

3. What does the author say his era has discerned about romantic love very well?

4. In addition to having a priority in itself, what other quality does marital love possess according to the author?

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

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