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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 non-existence of it.
(c) The strength of it.
(d) The weakness of it.

2. The author asserts that just as nothing is impossible for God, nothing is impossible for whom?
(a) The powerful individual.
(b) The religious individual.
(c) The humble individual.
(d) The pure individual.

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

4. What aspect of love does the author say is momentary?
(a) The romantic aspect.
(b) The tender aspect.
(c) The sensuous aspect.
(d) The hateful aspect.

5. According to the author of the letter, to what does a religious person refer everything?
(a) God.
(b) Satan.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say that every order of life, including marriage, has?

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

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

4. What does the author say is the defect of his era?

5. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?

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