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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 3, Aesthetic Validation of Marriage - First Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say his era has discerned about romantic love very well?
(a) The fleeting quality of it.
(b) The weakness of it.
(c) The strength of it.
(d) The non-existence of it.

2. What effect does giving of thanks have on first love?
(a) Giving of thanks augments first love.
(b) Giving of thanks changes first love to hatred.
(c) Giving of thanks decreases first love.
(d) Giving of thanks has no effect on first love.

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. To what does the author of the letter compare the young man at the end of this section?
(a) The author compares the young man to a bull rider.
(b) The author compares the young man to the pilot of a ship.
(c) The author compares the young man to an actor.
(d) The author compares the young man to a blushing bride.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second subject Kierkegaard examines?

2. What does the author say the young man he is writing to wants to be?

3. What does first love not need according to the author?

4. What is the only thing for which the author prays to God with his whole heart?

5. The author asserts that it might seem proper for marital love to begin with a kind of what?

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