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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 is the middle course that the "marriage of convenience" takes according to the author?
(a) The middle course is the path between immediate love, and calculating understanding.
(b) The middle course is the path between love and hate.
(c) The middle course is the path between comfort and tribulation.
(d) The middle course is the path between youth and maturity.

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. What is the opening phrase of the work?
(a) "Red Fox to Chrome Eagle:".
(b) "Dear Friend,".
(c) "Ladies and Gentlemen,".
(d) "Hey, guy,".

4. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?
(a) The cruel.
(b) The eternal.
(c) The temporal.
(d) The erotic.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what does the author of the letter compare the young man at the end of this section?

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

4. What does first love not fear according to the author?

5. What is David unable to appreciate about the parable?

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