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

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

3. In discussing the the aesthetic of marriage, upon what does the author of the letter draw?
(a) The author draws on examples from Confucius's marriage.
(b) The author draws on examples from his friend's marriage.
(c) The author draws on examples from his own marriage.
(d) The author draws on invented examples of marriage.

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

5. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?
(a) A quality of lameness.
(b) A quality of ephemerality.
(c) A quality of duplexity.
(d) A quality of sexiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the author compare the engagement period?

2. What is the opening phrase of the work?

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

4. What aspect of love does the author say is momentary?

5. What does the author assert reflective love does?

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