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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 that the first love always is?
(a) A profound evil.
(b) The highest earthly good.
(c) A terrific bore.
(d) An unavoidable necessity.

2. What character in opera does the author say embodies the state preceding love?
(a) Don Giovanni in DON GIOVANNI.
(b) Tristan in TRISTAN AND ISOLDE.
(c) Wotan in THE RING CYCLE.
(d) Page in FIGARO.

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

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

5. Why does the author suggest the young man may be "depressed" and fear marriage?
(a) The young man's parents were unhappy in their marriage and abused him all his life.
(b) The young man may be thinking, "Everything may change; what if this person that now I almost worship may change; what if, what if, etc."
(c) Perhaps the young man has not been taking his medication.
(d) The young man may be thinking, "She doesn't really love me; all love is false."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author say first love is for him?

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

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

5. From whom does King David hear a parable?

(see the answer key)

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