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

2. What is the second subject Kierkegaard examines?
(a) Messages in bottles.
(b) Messages from distant cousins.
(c) Messages from yourself.
(d) Messages from God.

3. What does the author say is the defect of his era?
(a) Facism.
(b) Depression.
(c) Ambivalence.
(d) Frivolity.

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

5. What creature sends the author into "reverie"?
(a) The tiger.
(b) The elephant.
(c) The jellyfish.
(d) The catfish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?

2. From whom does King David hear a parable?

3. According to the author, what happens to the value of an original, or first, thing if it may be repeated?

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

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

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