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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 6, Aesthetic Validity of Marriage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does first love not fear according to the author?
(a) Danger.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Calamity.
(d) Lust.

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

3. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?
(a) By being a process of history.
(b) By being a process of dominating.
(c) By being a process of destroying.
(d) By being a process of assimilation.

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

5. When discussing adversity with the young man, against what does the author warn?
(a) Promiscuity.
(b) Arbitrariness.
(c) Eccentricity.
(d) Thoughtlessness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe a couple's connection in a marriage of convenience?

2. According to the author, what is the lifeblood of marriage?

3. What is the relationship between marriage and first love according to the author?

4. What is the only way the author claims he would ever wish to be in relation to his wife?

5. What does David understand about the parable?

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