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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 2, Aesthetic Validity of Marriage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is "sympathetic" depression noble according to the author of the letter?
(a) The author has proclaimed it!
(b) "Sympathetic" depression is highly attractive in a young man.
(c) "Sympathetic" depression is the depression of the landed gentry.
(d) "Sympathetic" depression is for the sake of another.

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

3. What does the author say is the defect of his era?
(a) Facism.
(b) Depression.
(c) Frivolity.
(d) Ambivalence.

4. How does the author describe a couple's connection in a marriage of convenience?
(a) The connection is safe but unrewarding.
(b) The connection is moral but shallow.
(c) The connection is sexy and suffocating.
(d) The connection is immoral and fragile.

5. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?
(a) Love is irrelevant and marriage is significant.
(b) Love torment and marriage is peace.
(c) Love is false and marriage is true.
(d) Love is heaven and marriage is hell.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To what religion does the author say marriage belongs?

4. Why is the author accustomed to writing on this particular object?

5. What is the reader to understand about the content of Kierkegaard's letter?

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