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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Either/Or : Chapter 13, Ultimatum and.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author anticipate will be the young man's first objection to married life?
(a) The monotony of it all.
(b) The falseness of it all.
(c) The cuteness of it all.
(d) The conventionality of it all.

2. What does the author say cannot survive in the young man's thought?
(a) The infinite.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Morals.
(d) The finite.

3. From whom does King David hear a parable?
(a) The prophet Habbakuk.
(b) The prophet Nathan.
(c) The prophet Ezra.
(d) The prophet Joel.

4. What is the quality of marital love's movements?
(a) Marital love's movements are slow.
(b) Marital love's movements are outward.
(c) Marital love's movements are quick.
(d) Marital love's movements are inward.

5. What does the author call a poet-existence?
(a) A delight.
(b) A drag.
(c) A sin.
(d) A sacrifice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the author's stated attitude toward these feelings?

2. What does the author say is the defect of his era?

3. Of what two things is first love a unity?

4. The author accuses the young man of hardening his mind to what?

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

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