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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. To what does the author compare the engagement period?
(a) The time it takes many people to dive into the water when they go swimming.
(b) The time one spends at the hair salon.
(c) Being held underwater, dying for a gasp of fresh air.
(d) Being tortured on the rack.

2. How does the author say the young man may best perceive the state that precedes first love?
(a) By recalling that love makes one feel quite good.
(b) By recalling that love makes one lost.
(c) By recalling that love makes one fly.
(d) By recalling that love makes one blind.

3. The author asserts that it might seem proper for marital love to begin with a kind of what?
(a) Enthusiasm.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Romance.
(d) Doubt.

4. How does the author say the young man lives?
(a) The author says the young man lives by stealing happy moments.
(b) The author says the young man lives by creeping up unnoticed on people.
(c) The author says the young man lives by plundering.
(d) All of these.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In discussing the the aesthetic of marriage, upon what does the author of the letter draw?

2. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?

3. To whom does the author compare the young man when he is ill-tempered?

4. The author asserts that just as nothing is impossible for God, nothing is impossible for whom?

5. From whom does King David hear a parable?

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